have taught in such a way that my teaching would lead first and foremost to a knowledge of Christ, that is, to pure and proper faith and genuine love, and thereby to freedom in all matters of external conduct, such as eating, drinking, clothes, praying, fasting, monasteries, sacrament, and whatever it may be. Such freedom is to be used in a salutary way only by those who have faith and love, that is, those who are real Christians. On such people we can and should impose no human law—nor permit anyone else to do so—which would bind their conscience.12
