A76991:1047
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 72: 72. Thesis.
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72. Thesis.
To the first, 1I Answer. It is not absurd, that both one and the same, under a divers consideration, may be both a Mediator, and may yet be one included in party of the one side, Covenanting. For in the New Covenant, Christ, though he ⟨p. 397⟩be a Mediator; yet as God, he likewise is the other party covenanting; so in the Old Covenant Moses, seeing he was an Israelite, and a part of that people with whom God did enter into covenant, after he had taken upon him the Office of a Mediator, appointed him by God; he is no longer now simply to be considered as an Israelite, but as a Mediator; making intercession between God and the people of Israel; and this we conceive was done, that so he might appear to be a clearer and more manifest Type of Christ.
To the first, 1I Answer. It is not absurd, that both one and the same, under a divers consideration, may be both a Mediatour, and may yet be one included in party of the one side, Covenanting. For in the New Covenant, Christ, though he ⟨p. 397⟩be a Mediatour; yet as God, he likewise is the other party covenanting; so in the Old Covenant Moses, seeing he was an Israelite, and a part of that people with whom God did enter into covenant, after he had taken upon him the Office of a Mediatour, appointed him by God; he is no longer now simply to be considered as an Israelite, but as a Mediatour; making intercession betweene God and the people of Israel; and this we conceive was done, that so he might appeare to be a clearer and more manifest Type of Christ.