The principles of the doctrine of Christ: unfolded in two short catechismes, wherein those principles of religion are explained, the knowledge whereof is required by the late ordinance of Parliament, before any person bee admitted to the sacrament of the Lords Supper. For the use of the congregation at Fordham, in the county of Essex. By John Owen pastor there.

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Title: The principles of the doctrine of Christ: unfolded in two short catechismes, wherein those principles of religion are explained, the knowledge whereof is required by the late ordinance of Parliament, before any person bee admitted to the sacrament of the Lords Supper. For the use of the congregation at Fordham, in the county of Essex. By John Owen pastor there.
Author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
Publication: London :: printed by R. Cotes, for Philemon Stephens, at the guilded Lion in Pauls Church-yard,; 1645.
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CHAP. XXI. Of the priviledges of Beleevers.

Q. 1. What are the priviledges of those that thus beleeve and repent?

A. First, union with Christ; se∣condly, adoption of children; third∣ly, Christian liberty; fourthly, a spirituall holy right to the seales of the new Covenant; fifthly, com∣munion with all Saints; sixthly, resurrection of the body unto life eternall.

Q. 2. What is our union with Christ?

A. An (a) holy spirituall (1) (2) conjunction unto him, as our (b) head, (c) husband, and (d) foun∣dation, (e) whereby wee are made partakers of the same spirit with him, (f) and derive all good things

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from him. (a) 1 Cor. 12.12. Ioh. 15.1, 2.5, 6, 7. & 17.23. (b) Ephes. 4.15. & 5.23. Col. 1.18. (c) 2 Cor. 11.2. Ephes. 5.25, 26, 27. Revel. 21.9. (d) Matth. 16.18. Ephes. 2.20, 21, 22. 1 Pet. 2.4, 5, 6, 7. (e) Rom. 8.9.11. Gal. 4.6. Phil. 1.19. (f) Ioh. 1.12.16. Ephes. 1.3.

Q. 3. What is our adoption?

A. Our gracious reception into the family of God, as his children, and co-heirs with Christ, Ioh. 1.12. Rom. 8.15.17. Gal. 4.5. Ephes. 1.5.

Q. 4. How come wee to know this?

A. By the especiall working of the holy (3) Spirit in our heart••, sealing unto us the promises of God and raising up our soules to an as∣sured expectation of the promised inheritance, Rom. 8.15.17. Ephes. 4.30. 1 Ioh. 3.1. Rom. 8 19.23. Titus 2.12.

Q. 5. What is our Christian liberty?

A. An (4) holy and spirituall (a) freedome from the (b) slavery of sin, the (c) bondage of death and hell; the (d) curse of the Law, (e) Jewish ceremonies, and (f) thral∣dome of conscience, purchased for

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us by Jesus Christ, and (g) revealed to us by the holy Spirit. (a) Gal. 5.1. (b) Ioh. 8.32, 34, 36. Rom. 6.17, 18. Esa. 61.1. 1 Ioh. 1.7. 2 Cor. 5.21. (c) Rom. 8.15. Heb. 2.15. 1 Cor. 15.55, 57. (d) Gal. 3.13. Ephes. 2.15, 16. Gal. 4.5. Rom. 8.1. (e) Act. 15.10, 11. Gal. 3.4, 5. chapters. (f) 2 Cor. 1.24. 1 Cor. 7.23. 1 Pet. 2.16. (g) 1 Cor. 2.12.

Q. 6. Are wee then wholly freed from the Morall Law?

A. Yes, as (a) a Covenant (5) or as it hath any thing in it, bringing into bondage, as the curse, power, dominion, and rigid exaction of o∣bedience, (b) but not as it is a rule of life and holinesse, (a) Jer. 31 31, 32, 33. Rom. 7.1, 2, 3. Rom. 6.14. Gal. 3.19.24. Rom. 8.2. Gal. 5.18. (b) Mat. 5.17. Rom. 3 31. & 7.13.22, 25.

Q. 7. Are wee not freed by Christ from the Magistrates power, and hu∣mane authority?

A. No, being ordained of (6) God, and commanding for him, we owe them all lawfull obedience, Rom. 13.1, 2, 3, 4. 1 Tim. 2.1, 2. 1 Pet. 2.13.14, 15.

Notes

(1)

By vertue of this union, Christ suffereth in our afflicti∣ons, and wee fill up in our bodies what re∣maineth as his.

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(2)

From Christ as head of the Church, wee have spirituall life, sense, and motion, or growth in grace; secondly, as the husband of the Church, love, and redemption; thirdly, as the foundation thereof, stability, and perseverance.

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This is that great honour & dignity of be∣leevers, which exalts them to a despising all earthly thrones

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Our liber∣ty is our inhe∣ritance here below, which wee ought to contend for, a∣gainst all op∣posers.

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Nothing makes men condemn the Law as a rule, but hatred of that universall holinesse which it doth require.

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Rule and authority are as necessary for humane socie∣ty, as fire and water for our lives.

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