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ALL TRUE WORSHIP IS FREE.
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delight, in which they are hurried along as by a torrent. They imagine themselves to be in freedom, but it is infernal freedom; the difference between which and heavenly freedom is, that the former is that of death, and draws them down to hell; whereas the latter, or heavenly freedom, is that of life, and raises them up to heaven.

That all true internal worship is performed, not by compulsion, but from a principle of freedom, and that it is not internal worship unless it proceeds from a principle of freedom, appears from the Word, particularly from what is said of sacrifices, whether they were spontaneous, or according to vows, or sacrifices of peace, or of thanksgiving, gifts and offerings. (A. C. 1947.)

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