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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 52: 52. Thesis.
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52. Thesis.
For first, 1in that the Covenant of Nature doth restrain men from external vices, this it doth, not for any want of the Spirits being poured forth, under the New ⟨p. 387⟩Testament, (whereto the restraint, that flows from the Subservient Covenant did refer) but this it did, before that fullness of times, for want of the Spirit, which those times did partake of; and since the promulgation of the Gospel, it doth the same thing also, for want of the Spirit, which was promised in the new Covenant. But in what the Subservient Covenant did restrain, that it did, because the time was not as yet come: wherein God would send the Spirit of Adoption into the hearts of his faithful ones.
For first, 1in that the Covenant of Nature doth restraine men from externall vices, this it doth, not for any want of the Spirits being powred forth, under the New ⟨p. 387⟩Testament, (whereto the restraint, that flowes from the Subservient Covenant did referre) but this it did, before that fulnesse of times, for want of the Spirit, which those times did partake of; and since the promulgation of the Gospel, it doth the same thing also, for want of the Spirit, which was promised in the new Covenant. But in what the Subservient Covenant did restraine, that it did, because the time was not as yet come: wherein God would send the Spirit of Adoption into the hearts of his faithfull ones.