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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 67: 67. Thesis.
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67. Thesis.
They agree first of all, 1in this, That God is the Author of them both. Secondly, that both of them are made with man considered as he is a sinner. Thirdly, that both of them do reveal sin. Fourthly, that both of them do restrain from sin. Fifthly, that they both do lead to Christ. Sixthly, that either is a badge of the Church of God. Seventhly, that both of them were made through the Mediator. Eighthly, that in both of them life is promised.
They agree first of all, 1in this, That God is the Authour of them both. Secondly, that both of them are made with man considered as he is a sinner. Thirdly, that both of them doe reveale sin. Fourthly, that both of them doe restraine from sinne. Fifthly, that they both doe leade to Christ. Sixthly, that either is a badge of the Church of God. Seventhly, that both of them were made through the Mediatour. Eightly, that in both of them life is promised.
- 1The agreement of the Subservient Covenant, with the Covenant of Grace.