freedom for the minister to omit unedifying ceremonies as he sees fit, but insisting on his obligation to resist any unbiblical ceremonies. Logically, this move involved something of an inversion of the original claim to Christian liberty, and threatened to impose instead a new legalistic burden: instead of “nothing but what is in Scripture may be required for belief” it was now “nothing but what is in Scripture may be used or believed.” The difference may be clear enough in retrospect, but in this