45. The Spirit of holiness is a free Spirit; he sets people at liberty and enables them to resist every effort to bring them under subjection. The more we seek after the perfection of our obedience, the more shall we enjoy complete emancipation from every form of spiritual slavery.
The verse is united to verse 44, for it begins with the word And. It mentions another of the benefits expected from the coming of mercies from God: liberty. He says I will walk, indicating his daily progress through life; at liberty, as one who is out of prison, unimpeded by adversaries, unencumbered with burdens, unshackled, allowed a wide range, and roaming without fear. Such liberty would be dangerous if a man were seeking himself or his own lusts; but when the one object sought after is the will of God, there can be no need to restrain the searcher. He said he would keep the law, but here he speaks of seeking it. Does he not mean that he will obey what he knows, and endeavor to know more? Is not this the way to the highest form of liberty—to be always laboring to know the mind of God and to be conformed to it? Those who keep the law are sure to seek it, and bestir themselves to keep it more and more.
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