THUS MUCH CONCERNING INWARD FREEDOM: NOW CONCERNING OUTWARD FREEDOM.

The outward freedom, is that which pertaineth to the outward life. And it is called Christian liberty, because it belongeth to Christians only.

And that is two fold, freedom from the laws of Moses, and freedom in indifferent things.

Freedom from the laws of Moses, is that by which Christians are loosed from the ceremonial, & Judicial laws of Moses, namely, so far forth as they only pertaine to the civil governement under Moses. 1. Cor. 9. 1. 19. 2. Cor. 3. 17. Heb. 9. 10.

For such laws which belong to the law of nature, and by which all nations are bound, are not abrogated.

Amandus Polanus, Partitions of Divinity (London, 1590), 101–2

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  R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.

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