A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer

4. It is the truest Liberty to be subject to the Will of God. Then, when the Son of God shall make you free, you shall be free indeed: John 8. 36. How doth the Son of God make us free? not from Duty, but for Duty. He that lieth under the dominion and power of any Sin, is a very Slave. But then are we free indeed, when we are loosed, not from a due Subjection to God, but from the Power of the Devil. It is not Liberty to be free to do what we please, Good or Evil; but the more determined we are to Good, the more Freedom; for that's a Liberty which comes nearest to the Liberty of God, who is a most free Agent, and yet cannot sin: such a Liberty is in God, Christ, and the Angels in Heaven; surely they do not live a slavish Life, that are ever praising and lauding of God. It will be the greatest pleasure in the issue to deny our own Will, and do the Will of God. The more we are enlarged for this, the greater is our Happiness: then we have the Happiness of the Spirits of just Men. None among Men have greater ⟨p. 266⟩Happiness than glorified Saints, yet none have less of their own Will. Why should we account that a Bondage, which is part of our Happiness? In Heaven, glorified Spirits there are not complaining of any Burden, yet they have no Will of their own, but they will and nill as God doth.

4. It is the truest Liberty to be subject to the Will of God. Then, when the Son of God shall make you free, you shall be free indeed: John 8. 36. How doth the Son of God make us free? not from Duty, but for Duty. He that lieth under the dominion and power of any Sin, is a very Slave. But then are we free indeed, when we are loosed, not from a due Subjection to God, but from the Power of the Devil. It is not Liberty to be free to do what we please, Good or Evil; but the more determined we are to Good, the more Freedom; for that's a Liberty which comes nearest to the Liberty of God, who is a most free Agent, and yet cannot sin: such a Liberty is in God, Christ, and the Angels in Heaven; surely they do not live a slavish Life, that are ever praising and lauding of God. It will be the greatest pleasure in the issue to deny our own Will, and do the Will of God. The more we are inlarged for this, the greater is our Happiness: then we have the Happiness of the Spirits of just Men. None among Men have greater