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Theo. Yet have I heard some say,¹ that we are made free by Christ, & ought to serve no man, nor to be charged with payments to any parson, but all things ought to be common among christen men.

Theo. Yet haue I hearde some saye,¹ that we are made free by Christe, & ought to serue no manne, nor to be charged with paymētes to ony parson, but all thynges ought to be cō mon amonge christen men.

1. 1An objectionAn obiec•iō

Phil. To answer unto every part of this your sentence,¹ requireth many words, & asketh much time. But to be short, know that who so ever maintaineth that kind of doctrine, dissenteth much from the christen religion, corrupteth the word of God, soweth false teaching,² hunteth a carnal liberty, and desireth to live in all kind of sin without punishment. ⟨image 79⟩Trueth it is, y• we are made free by Christ, but this our liberty is spiritual and not temporal. By Christ we are delivered from the dā nation of the law,³ but not from the observance of it. By Christ we are made free from the power of Satan sin, death, desperation and hell, but not from the power of y• civil magistrates. By Christ have we received our manumission & freedom from the condemnation of all those things, into the which we were cast by the sin of our first father Adā. So that by Christ we are spiritually made free, if we abide in his words, as we read in the Gospel of John & in divers other places of y holy scripture. But this spiritual liberty maketh us not free from our obedience & duty toward the temporal power, to whom we owe both our selves and all that ever we have, as ye eard before. For this were a thing