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I. HIS TRUE FREEDOM.

1. From an over-estimate of externals.

2. From pride of condition and false shame.

3. From servility.

4. In the service of Christ.

II. HIS TRUE DEPENDENCE.

1. He knows that self-dependence is impossible.

2. Regards himself as Christ's property.

3. Accounts it his highest honour to abide in God.

(J. Lyth, D. D.)

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KJV: But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.

WEB: Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.