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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 54: 54. Thesis.
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54. Thesis.
For this cause the Jews, both by the Covenant of Nature, like unto us, and also by the Subservient Covenant, different from us, were restrained from external sins.
For this cause the Iewes, both by the Covonant of Nature, like unto us, and also by the Subservient Covenant, different from us, were restrained from externall sinnes.
55. Thesis.
In like manner also doth the Covenant of Nature lead us unto Christ one way, 1the Subservient Covenant another: for the Covenant of Nature begets and stirs up thirst in men; which by Christ applied, either in the promise, or the Gospel, is assuaged; but the thirst which the Subservient Covenant did excite, could be no otherwise assuaged, then by the coming of Christ himself in the flesh.
In like manner also doth the Covenant of Nature lead us unto Christ one way, 1the Subservient Covenant another: for the Covenant of Nature begets and stirres up thirst in men; which by Christ applyed, either in the promise, or the Gospel, is asswaged; but the thirst which the Subservient Covenant did excite, could be no otherwise asswaged, then by the coming of Christ himselfe in the flesh.