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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 50: 50. Thesis.
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50. Thesis.
Yet this was not the end of this Covenant; 1never thelesse, in that the knowledge thereof was not wholly blotted out of the mind of lapsed men, it was so ordained of God for this end, that thereto it might be serviceable, both to restrain men, and to lead them unto Christ.
Yet this was not the end of this Covenant; 1never thelesse, in that the knowledge thereof was not wholly blotted out of the minde of lapsed men, it was so ordained of God for this end, that thereto it might be serviceable, both to restraine men, and to lead them unto Christ.
- 1By the Covenant of Nature, men are restrained from sin.By the Covenant of Nature, men are restrained from sinne.