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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 ⟨image 79⟩of to much absurdity & contrary to all good order, & the teaching both of Christ & of his Apostles. Yea so should God be the Author of confusion & not of order, of dissension and not of concord. S. Austen saith,⁴ if any man thinketh, that because he is a christen man, he ought to pay no custom or tribute, nor show any honour to the high powers, he falleth into a great error, & is very much deceived.⁵