“Now doth not this manifest, that there were some teachers, that were drawing the church of the Galatians into these beggarly elements, and bringing them again into bondage, in observing days, months, times, and years? It was the apostle’s work to bring them out of those bondages and beggarly elements; and therefore, when they were going back again into observing days, months, times, and years, he was afraid that he had ‘bestowed his labour upon them in vain;’ and he exhorts them to ‘stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ Jesus hath made them free, and not to be entangled again with the yoke of bondage,’ and again signifies, that ‘they had been once entangled with that yoke of bondage and beggarly elements.’ “But O! how are people, called Christians, since the apostles’ days, gone again under this yoke of bondage, and these beggarly elements, in observing days, months, times, and years, let their practice declare. Nay, do not both Papists and Protestants force people to observe days, months, and times? And therefore is not the apostle’s labour and travail bestowed upon Christendom in vain, which was to bring people from under such beggarly elements, and that yoke of bondage (which the law did require), to ‘stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made them free, and not to be entangled again with the yoke of bondage?’ It was and is Christ, that hath made and doth make his people free from these beggarly elements; therefore, they that are redeemed, are to ‘stand fast in that liberty wherewith Christ hath made them free.’ This liberty all true Christians are to stand fast in; they are made free by Christ and not by man; for man, without the Spirit and mind of Christ, seeks to force and compel Christ’s followers, such as are made free from the yoke of bondage, to outward things that the law commanded, to the observing of days, months, times, feasts, and years. From such weak, beggarly elements, they that know God, or are known of God and Christ, are to stand fast in their liberty, and not come under, nor be entangled with the yoke of bondage to such things again, seeing he hath made them free. For they that are in such things, and would force others to them, are gone from that which gives the knowledge of God, and have not stood fast in the liberty wherewith Christ makes free.