A76991:1015
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 57: 57. Thesis.
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57. Thesis.
Therefore the Jews were brought unto Christ by the Covenant of Nature, after another manner from what they were by the Subservient Covenant.
Therefore the Iewes were brought unto Christ by the Covenant of Nature, after another manner from what they were by the Subservient Covenant.
58. Thesis.
To the second, I answer, 1that we consider the Covenant of Nature, according to its first institution, when it was instituted with man, entire, and uncorrupt, and not according to its accidentary use, the Nature of man being now wholly corrupted and depraved.
- 1Whence it is that the Covenant of Nature doth compel.Whence it is that the Covenant of Nature doth compell.