A76991:1044
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 71: 71. Thesis.
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71. Thesis.
Here two things will be demanded: First, how Moses could be said to be a Mediator of that covenant, seeing he himself was one included in the party on the one side covenanting. Secondly, why the Sacrifices, [Sacraments] and Ceremonies of the Old Covenant, are called carnals; the Sacraments of the New Covenant not so; whereas Christ, or the benefits of Christ were represented as well in those, [of the Old Covenant] as in these they are.
Here two things will be demanded: First, how Moses could be said to be a Mediatour of that covenant, seeing he himselfe was one included in the party on the one side covenanting. Secondly, why the Sacrifices, [Sacraments] and Ceremonies of the Old Covenant, are called carnalls; the Sacraments of the New Covenant not so; whereas Christ, or the benefits of Christ were represented as well in those, [of the Old Covenant] as in these they are.