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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 56: 56. Thesis.
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56. Thesis.
Therefore men, so far forth as being pressed on by the Covenant of Nature, they are disquieted with the desire of a Mediator; yet before he was exhibited, they desire only an Application of Christ promised, but after he was exhibited, they desire the bestowing of him exhibited. But the Subservient Covenant ⟨p. 389⟩did not suffer men to rest satisfied in Christ, as one that was promised, but further, it did inflame them with a marvellous desire of his coming in the flesh. Just thus under the Gospel, the Covenant of Grace doth cast in a desire, not only of that measure of Jesus Christ, which will be afforded us in this life, but it doth also excite and stir up, in the minds of the godly, a marvellous desire of the dissolution of this body, and of the second coming of Christ.
Therefore men, so farre forth as being pressed on by the Covenant of Nature, they are disquieted with the desire of a Mediatour; yet before he was exhibited, they desire only an Application of Christ promised, but after he was exhibited, they desire the bestowing of him exhibited. But the Subservient Covenant ⟨p. 389⟩did not suffer men to rest satisfied in Christ, as one that was promised, but further, it did enflame them with a marvellous desire of his comming in the flesh. Iust thus under the Gospel, the Covenant of Grace doth cast in a desire, not only of that measure of Iesus Christ, which will be afforded us in this life, but it doth also excite and stirre up, in the minds of the godly, a marvellous desire of the dissolution of this body, and of the second comming of Christ.