...to purify the world ! Now let me ask, Who is the Lord's freedman ? He whom the truth makes free. " If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." (John viii. 32.) What is Christian liberty ? The estate of the sons of God, whereby they are de29 livered from...

...Gal. xxiv. 26. "Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a Son." Gal. iv. 7. Our royal King says, " ) " I call you not servants, but I have called you friends." John xv. 15'. Again he says, " Verily, verily,...

...Christ find liberty. " In whom we have redemption through his blood," Eph. i. 7. Christ himself says, " If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed," John viii. 36. Life is very uncomfortable without liberty. How would it embitter life, to be always in prison and...

...' made whole :' Matt. be. 21. Wait upon him, and you shall obtain both strength and liberty ; ' for if the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed :' John viii. 36. Respecting your sense of weakness, let me add, that the Provision made for fallen nature, and corresponding...

...both by our Lord and by the Apostle, contrasted with the liberty of the soul under a state of grace. ' If the Son shall make you free ye shall be free indeed,' (John viii. 36) eays Christ, and St. Paul calls it ' the glorious liberty of the children of God' (Rom. viii. 21)....

...(2 Cor. iii. 17.) " Now the Lord is that Spirit;" (2 Cor. iii. 17;) and therefore the Son saith, " If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." (John viii. 36.) " As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe...

...seed, and were never in bondage to any man, how sayest thou, Ye shall be free. Jesus said unto them, If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.' John viii. 33, 36, 41. ' He that liveth and believeth in me shall never die.' xi. 26. ' I speak that which I have...

...sin, the law, and death eternal, and are Christ's free men, as he himself said to his disciples, " If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed " (John viii. 36); and then, as St. Paul says, " they are delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty...

...to any man (John viii. 33). Hear Christ's reply : " Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed" (John viii. 34 — 36). Were not such words as these calculated to cut them to the quick? Might they not well ask,...

...present state of spiritual darkness and bondage. Oh, what a beautiful passage that is in the Gospel, ' If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.' (John viii. 36.) No more at present from your ever fond child, ." CHAPTER XXI. DEAD AND LIVING. How lovely is spring...