Confession Library / 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith

Of Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience

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LBCF1689 21.1

The liberty which Christ has purchased for believers under the gospel, consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, the severity and curse of the law, 1 and in their being delivered from this present evil world, 2 bondage to Satan, 3 and dominion…

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LBCF1689 21.2

God alone is Lord of the conscience, 1 and has left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in any thing contrary to his word, or not contained in it. 2 So that to believe such doctrines, or obey such commands out of conscience, is to betray true liberty of c…

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LBCF1689 21.3

They who upon pretence of Christian liberty do practice any sin, or cherish any sinful lust, as they do thereby pervert the main design of the grace of the gospel to their own destruction, 1 so they wholly destroy the end of Christian liberty, which is, that being delivered out o…

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