A76991:1040
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
CERTAIN THESES, or, Positions of the Learned JOHN CAMERON, Concerni… › Thesis 69: 69. Thesis.
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69. Thesis.
Furthermore the old Covenant was [a mean] unto Christ; 1considered either as it did redargue and reprove men of sin; or as it did restrain men from sin, or as being a Type, and a similitude of the new Covenant; the two former have been explained already, the latter yet remains.
Furthermore the old Covenant was [a meane] unto Christ; 1considered either as it did redargue and reprove men of sinne; or as it did restraine men from sinne, or as being a Type, and a similitude of the new Covenant; the two former have beene explained already, the latter yet remaines.
- 1The Old Covenant is a mean to the New.The Old Covenant is a meane to the New.
70. Thesis.
There are two parts of the old Covenant, the Law Moral, and Ceremonial,