A76991:1008
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 53: 53. Thesis.
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53. Thesis.
For like as under the New Testament, the measure of the Spirit is one in this life, another in the life to come; so under the Old Testament, the measure of the Spirit was far different then from what now it is under the New: and like as in that measure of the Spirit, which is bestowed under the New Testament, seeing in this life it is not bestowed perfect, there is need of a curb whereby the flesh might be restrained, which is the Covenant of Nature; so that measure which could be afforded us in the Old Covenant, for as ⟨p. 388⟩much as it was never afforded us perfect, had need also of a like curb.
For like as under the New Testament, the measure of the Spirit is one in this life, another in the life to come; so under the Old Testament, the measure of the Spirit was farre different then from what now it is under the New: and like as in that measure of the Spirit, which is bestowed under the New Testament, seeing in this life it is not bestowed perfect, there is need of a curbe whereby the flesh might be restrained, which is the Covenant of Nature; so that measure which could be afforded us in the Old Covenant, for as ⟨p. 388⟩much as it was never afforded us perfect, had need also of a like curb.