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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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2. From Spiritual, as they have relation to eternal: So we must needs conclude.
2. From Spirituall, as they have relation to eternall: So we must needs conclude.
3. From Temporal, so far as they have relation to either spiritual or eternal punishments; or, as they have any thing of wrath in them.
3. From Temporall, so farre as they have relation to either spirituall or eternall punishments; or, as they have any thing of wrath in them.
God hath thoughts of love in all he doth to his people: the grounds of his dealings to us is love, though the occasion may be sin, the manner of his dealings are love, and the end of his dealings are love. 1. Our good here, to make us partakers of his holiness; As the Apostle saith. 2. Our glory hereafter, to make us partakers of his glory.
God hath thoughts of love in all he doth to his people: the grounds of his dealings to us is love, though the occasion may be sin, the manner of his dealings are love, and the end of his dealings are love. 1. Our good here, to make us partakers of his holinesse; As the Apostle saith. 2. Our glory hereafter, to make us partakers of his glory.