(5) The Child of Liberty in Legal Bondage, OR The Son and Heir in the Servant's Yoke; A SERMON, PREACHED AT MONKWELL-STREET MEETING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1794. By WILLIAM HUNTINGTON, S.S. MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL AT PROVIDENCE CHAPEL, LITTLE TITCHFIELD-STREET. I am shut up, I cannot come forth. PSALM lxxxviii. 8. JER. XXXI. 18. Thou hast chastised me, and I was chaftifed, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. THIRD EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED BY T. BENSLEY, BOLT COURT, FLEET STREET. Sold at Providence Chapel on Monday and Wednesday Evenings, and at Monkwell-Street Meeting on Tuesday Evenings; by T. Green, No. 93, and J. Baker, No. 226, Oxford-Street; George Calladine, Bookfeller, Lei. cefter; Benjamin Gateward, Watchmaker, Hitchin, Herts; Thomas Barton, Market Place, Grantham, Lincolnshire; at the Chapel in the Cuff, Lewes, Suffex; by A. Batten, fen. Wellwyn, Herts; and by J. Jamefon, Penrith, Cumberland. To MR. HUNTINGTON. REV. AND DEAR SIR, London, Sept. 10, 1794. As I understand you are frequently troubled, and put to unneceffary expense, with impertinent and unedifying letters, I humbly beg excufe for troubling you again at this time, hoping you will not have reafon at least to complain of the impertinence of this letter, however much of its ignorance, and none at all of its expense. I had the happiness last night, as in the good providence of God I have often had before, to hear you at Monkwell-street Chapel on the text "Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Chrift hath "made us free," &c: with much fatisfaction, and, I hope by the bleffing of God, with fome edification. I think, if, after fuch a fermon, and the doctrines contained in and enforced by it, your adversaries continue to infift upon the danger of your doctrines, and the error of your judgment as a Minifter of the Gofpel, they must form an hypothefis by malice and prejudice, and ufe the arguments from falsehood and flander. There is no doubt but that, if a man be made an offender for a word, or his own natural mode of expreffion, who among men (who are all, at the best, but imperfect), who among them shall escape A 3 (6) efcape judgment and condemnation? only, however, as it is happy for them, by their own brethren, fallible as themselves, and accountable to the judgment, and liable to the condemnation, without repentance, of him who is only impartial and juft. According to my weak judgment, you fully fettled the difpute with your adversaries respecting Antinomianism, and removed the smallest doubt (to any one of the orthodoxy of your principles refpecting the believer's freedom from the law as a covenant of works, and of fubjection to it as a rule of obedience for life, or as a rule of obedience at all, only as a transcript of the moral perfections of God, and perfect ftandard of righteoufnefs; which is wrought out by Jefus Chrift for all whom the Father has given him, and applied to them through the faith of the operation of his Spirit, which works by love; and, as it is perfect and pure, and abounds to God and man, is a fulfilling of the law. Your correfpondent, whom you mentioned last night, appears to me to be just such a man in principle as your adverfaries mistake you for. According to what you mentioned of him, as appears to me, he is an Antinomian in the proper fenfe of the word. When he is once freed from the fenfible bondage of the law, he feems to flatter himfelf he has nothing to fear from its power (as to bondage) for ever again. But I am afraid he foon will, as ufual, if we aright know ourselves, and the law, and its author, and at the fame time examine our own difpofitions and practice for one week, much |