The Law Established Through Faith Discourse I · §37

Filial love or servile fear

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What then? Shall this evangelical principle of action, be less powerful than the legal? Shall we be less obedient to God from filial love, than we were from servile fear?

1771 text

4. What then? Shall this evangelical principle of action, be less powerful than the legal? Shall we be less obedient to God from filial love, than we were from servile fear?

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Sermon 35 in the 1771 Works. Romans 3:31.

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