A76991:1042
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 70: 70. Thesis.
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70. Thesis.
There are two parts of the old Covenant, the Law Moral, and Ceremonial, 1to which also may be added their Polity: [namely, the Judicial Law] these, if considered in themselves, did redargue and reprove man of sin; and indeed the Moral Law, as through the weakness of the flesh it is impossible; so it declares a man not to be spiritual, and it doth restrain him from outward impieties, through the intervening of the spirit of bondagep; but now the Ceremonies did set forth mans impurity contracted by sin. But and if we consider them as Types, so the Moral Law was the Copy ⟨p. 396⟩of our holiness: the Sacrifices some of them, did set forth the death of Christ as expiatory; the rest of them did figure out qthe reasonable sacrifice of our body and mind, in respect whereof, rwe are called Priests: and those other cleansings did note out unto us the real sanctification of our souls in the blood and Spirit of Christ.
There are two parts of the old Covenant, the Law Morall, and Ceremoniall, 1to which also may be added their Polity: [namely, the Iudiciall Law] these, if considered in themselves, did redargue and reprove man of sinne; and indeed the Morall Law, as through the weakenesse of the flesh it is impossible; so it declares a man not to be spirituall, and it doth restraine him from outward impieties, through the intervening of the spirit of bondage