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I. THE NATURE OF TRUE FREEDOM.

1. The absence of all restraint.

2. The worldling is not free.

3. Man naturally desires freedom.

II. THE CHURCH OF CHRIST AS THE HOME OF THE TRULY FREE.

1. It is a voluntary association.

2. It is well adapted to promote human happiness.

3. It is a state of preparation and training for higher scenes.

III. THE PROVINCE OF THE CHURCH IN DIFFUSING THE TRUE FREEDOM OF THE RACE.

1. What it has done.

2. Would do.

3. Can do, as the hope of the free.Learn: gospel freedom is necessary, for it alone can —

(1)  make other freedom possible;

(2)  valuable;

(3)  permanent.

(W. R. Williams.)

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KJV: So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

WEB: So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.