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The Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechism
The confession of faith ; and, The larger and shorter catechism first agreed upon by the Westminster Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and now approved by the General Assembly of the kirk of Scotland to be a part of uniformity in religion between the kirks of Christ in the three kingdoms.
Edinbourg: printed by George Swinton and Thomas Brown, 1671
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. XX. Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience.
The Liberty which Christ hath purchased for Believers, under the gospel, consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, the curse of the Moral Lawa, and in their being delivered from this present evil world, bondage to Satan, and dominion of sinb; from the evil of afflictions, the sting of death, the Victory of the grave, and everlasting damnationc, as also, in their free access to Godd, and their yielding obedience unto him, not out of slavish fear, but a Child like love and willing minde. All which were common also to Believers under the Law. But under ⟨p. 46⟩the new Testament, the liberty of Christians is further enlarged, in their freedom from the yoke of the Ceremonial Law, to which the Jewish Church was subject g, and in greater boldness of access to the Throne of Grace h, and in fuller communications of the free Spirit of God, than believers under the Law, did ordinarily partake ofi.
THe Liberty which Christ hath purchased for Believers, under the gospel, consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, the curse of the Moral Lawa, and in their being delivered from this present evil world, bondage to Satan, and dominion of sin