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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 68: 68. Thesis.
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68. Thesis.
But they differ. 1First, in the quality *and condition of the Author; for God in the subservient Covenant is considered as reproving sin, and as one approving only righteousness: but here now he is otherwise considered in the Covenant of Grace, as one remitting sin, and repairing a new righteousness in man. ⟨p. 393⟩Secondly, they differ in the stipulation, for this is the stipulation [or condition] of the old Covenant, aDo this and live; of the new, bBelieve, and thou shalt not come into judgement. Thirdly, they differ in their antiquity; for the subservient Covenant was added cto the Promises of Grace, which preceded. Fourthly, they differ in the manner of discovering sin, for the subservient Covenant doth not discover sin primarilyd, but by experience of mans weakness in the keeping of that Covenant; but the Covenant of Grace doth it primarily; efor it doth teach *