Liberty opposed to servitude, compulsion, necessity; servitude proper and metaphorical
Freedom, then, stands over against three things: servitude, compulsion, and necessity.
Servitude, and with it the opposing freedom, is either literal or figurative. Literal servitude is the state of people who are slaves by legal condition and so are under their masters' power. Figurative servitude is when something is spoken of as lord over men.
Thus Scripture calls those who give themselves to their sins slaves of sin, and those whom God's just sentence has handed over to ruin and death are likewise called slaves of death and decay.
Against the slavery to sin Scripture sets another servitude, that of righteousness, which is freedom from sin; the schools call it the freedom of grace. Against the slavery of misery, that is, of death and decay, Scripture sets what it calls the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
Latin
XII. Libertas ergo opponitur 1. Servituti, 2. Coactioni, 3. Necessitati. Rursus vero servitus & proinde illi opposita libertas est propria vel Metaphorica. Proprie dicta servitus est illa qua qui sunt inter homines conditione servi, sunt in Dominorum suorum potestate. Metaphorica vero servitus est, quum Dominium in homines figurate rebus quibusdam tribuitur. Ut quum homines peccatis indulgentes dicuntur in scriptura esse peccati servi, & qui per justam Dei sententiam sunt exitio & morti addicti, similiter dicuntur servi mortis & corruptionis. Illi vero servituti qua homines sunt peccato mancipati opponitur alia servitus, nempe servitus justitiae, quae est libertas a peccato, sive libertas gratiae, ut vocatur in Scholis. Et servituti miseriae, sive mortis & corruptionis, opponit scriptura libertatem quam vocat gloriae filiorum Dei.