Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Peter 2:16
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1 Peter2:16
16 As free , and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness , but as the servants of God .
He prevents an Objection; they might pretend they were a free People, as Iews, and therefore were not to obey Strangers, Deut. 17.15. Iohn 8.33. and made free by Christ. He answers, That they were free indeed, but it was from Sin, and not from Righteousness, not from Obedience to God's Law, which requires Subjection to Magistrates, for they were still the Servants of God.
Not using your Liberty to cover, or palliate your VVickedness, excusing your selves from Obedience to your Superiours by a pretence of Christian Liberty, when, tho ye be free from Sin, yet ye are not from Duty.
And so still bound to obey him, and your Rulers in him.
Marginal references: Gal. 5.1, 13.; Gr. or having.; 1 Cor. 7.22.
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