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s* in any condition, however rude; iiy, 4 1076 THS cvmn a« ro noDitv laaock. [Dir. and that all ^ood and bappy conditiotLH of huma- nity waited for the (jospel ;^Uiat there vias^fl univerBal groarmg of the creature, till Urn ntaiu^ Testation of the Hona of God, in the train of trhidi manifestation would follow lights libertyi charity, peace, and happiness. Accordingly^ Lnstcad of lumiDg their ntteo to the miserica of Uavcry, to the disabilities their |>olitical condition, to thf^. cruelly of their niasterfi, and tticlr unalrdting endurance; instead of calling upon them by their wrongft, to rise and assert their manhood, arid their freedom, or work- ing upon any of the natural pas&ioos of the hib man brca^^t, he is careful, whenever id h.i& K Htles he hath occaaion to address these slave?*, turn away their minds froci the consideration o( their political thraldom, to the contemplatioD of their Christian liberty; from the 8u1fcrin^ of a passing world, to the Joys which arc to be reveal- ed in the world to come, lie teacheth tlic slare to consider himself as Christ's frec-man, and the owner of the slave to consider himself as Christ's slave; and in all that respected thom^ dpiritnd and eternal, that they were eqnally free nnd equal- ly bound— where tlicrc is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female, but all arv in ChriU Jt'KUS, purchased from tlie same thr&ldon. and called with the same hope of their calliog- In proof of which, I quote to you from the Se- cond EpiJiUe to the Corinthians, this remail^^ile passage: "Art thou ccdicdp being a servant,*^ (bed the word in the original is never used but for the condition of servitude which we described,) " art ibou called, being a filave? carer not for it; bvt if tliou maycst be made free, use it rather. For V,] THE CUft^K AS TO BOUlLr LABOUR. 1077 he that is colled in tlic Lcrd» being a scTvnnt, is the lxird'f4 Ircc-man : likewise also be that is eall- ed, being free, iit Christ's servanU Ve are bought with a price; be cot ye the servants of meh^ Brethren let every man, wherever he is called, therein abide with God." He never goes so fiir in any other part of his Epistles, as in this pas- sagCp "if thou maysl be madcffcc. use it rather/!' He fin^t telU themnottocareaboat their bondage, not to k't it weigh u[v}n their spintsf, y^-l U> prefer liberty if it should be in their power Then truns* ferring their minds to spiriiiial views and consider- ations, he concludes the servant free in a spiritual »ensc, and the master in the same sense