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so that thou art no longer a bond servant, but a son: and if a son, then an heir of God thro' Christ.

When you did not know God, you did service to those, who in reality are no Gods; but now that you know God,

yet you did not despise me for the trial which attended my person, nor treated me with scorn; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

they court your affection, but not in a fair way; for they design to exclude me, that you might have the greater esteem for them.

but it is just you should cultivate my affection for you upon all proper occasions, and not only when I am present with you.

But tell me, you that are so willing to be under the law, why don't you consider the law?

he, who was of the bond-woman, was born according to the ordinary course of nature; but he, who was of the free-woman, was born by virtue of the promise.

but the heavenly Jerusalem is represented by the free-woman, who is the mother of us all.

but as then, he that was born in the ordinary course of nature, persecuted him, who was born by an extraordinary power; even so it is now.

but what saith the scripture? "cast out the bond-woman and her son; for the son of the bond-woman shall not share the inheritance with the son of the free-woman."

so then, my brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free-woman, by virtue of that freedom which Christ has procur'd for us.

but as for us, our minds are possessed with the hopes of justification by faith.

for in the christian-dispensation, neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but an active benevolent faith.

for, brethren, you have been called to liberty. only abuse not this freedom as a pretext to vice, but in offices of love be as servants one to another.

but if you bite and tear one another, take heed that you be not consumed by one another.

but if you are governed by the spirit, you are not subject to the law.

but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, sweetness of disposition, beneficence, faithfulness, meekness, temperance:

but let every one bring his own work to the test, and then he will have matter of glorying in himself alone, and not in another.

he that soweth to his vices, shall reap the deadly fruit of his vices; but he that sows to the spirit, shall of the spirit reap everlasting life.

for even they who are circumcised, do not themselves observe the law in other respects; but they dedesire to have you circumcised, that they may have matter of glorying upon that account.