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The True Bounds of Christian Freedom
The true bounds of Christian freedom or a treatise wherein the rights of the law are vindicated, the liberties of grace maintained, and the several late opinions against the law are examined and confuted. Whereunto is annexed a discourse of the learned John Cameron's, touching the threefold covenant of God with man, / faithfully translated, by Samuel Bolton minister of the word of God at Saviours-Southwark.The true bounds of Christian freedome or a treatise wherein the rights of the law are vindicated, the liberties of grace maintained, and the severall late opinions against the law are examined and confuted. Whereunto is annexed a discourse of the learned Iohn Camerons, touching the threefold covenant of God with man, / faithfully translated, by Samuel Bolton minister of the word of God at Saviours-Southwark.
London: printed by J.L. for Philemon Stephens, 1645
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CERTAIN THESES, or, Positions of the Learned JOHN CAMERON, Concerni… › Thesis 49: 49. Thesis.
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49. Thesis.
Nevertheless, 1it doth not this alike in all men, for in those who are guided only by the light of Nature, by reason of that ignorance which is ingenerated in the mind of man; it performs this more superficially ⟨p. 386⟩and slightly: but those now who in the word of God do read this due of nature; or hear it deciphered; it doth urge more strongly: But most of all strongly, those, whose minds it doth *besprinkle or enlighten with a singular and extraordinary light, to discern clearly how much it is they owe, and how little they have payed; as also how sore a punishment they have, upon that account, demerited.
Neverthelesse, 1it doth not this alike in all men, for in those who are guided only by the light of Nature, by reason of that ignorance which is ingenerated in the minde of man; it performes this more superficially ⟨p. 386⟩and slightly: but those now who in the word of God doe read this due of nature; or heare it deciphered; it doth urge more strongly: But most of all strongly, those, whose minds it doth *besprinkle or inlighten with a singular and extraordinary light, to discerne clearely how much it is they owe, and how little they have payed; as also how sore a punishment they have, upon that account, demerited.