Trueman again: https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/01/no-mercy-without-rules
No Mercy Without Rules | Carl R. Trueman
Perhaps paradoxically, my freedom requires rules, which sometimes run against my instincts. It is thus a mercy that those rules are given to me and, where necessary, enforced by external authority, whether that of family, employer, or church.
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