A76991:1049
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 73: 73. Thesis.
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73. Thesis.
But from hence a greater and more weighty difficulty seemeth to arise: for seeing God is infinite, it may not absurdly be demanded, In what respect could Moses be a Mediator between God and man, seeing he himself was but a man? To this we answer: that Mediation is twofold. The one, by the benefit whereof men are truly and effectually united unto God; and this Mediation we confess, belongeth to no other then to a person endued with infinite virtue and power; and so that the New Covenant could admit of no other Mediator then of one, ⟨p. 398⟩who must be God, we constantly affirm; but then we say, again, there is another Mediation, whereof this only is the use; to show what the way and manner is, how God is to be worshipped in, and not to inspire into men a strength and power to perform it; nor to reconcile men unto God; but only it propounds those things whereby it easily appears what need they have of reconciliation: This is the Mediation of the Old Covenant: wherefore we say not that the Mediator of it ought to have been of infinite power, seeing those things are not of a power infinite, but finite, and such, as may belong unto a creature.
But from hence a greater and more weighty difficultie seemeth to arise: for seeing God is infinite, it may not absurdly be demanded, In what respect could Moses be a Mediatour betweene God and man, seeing he himselfe was but a man? To this we answer: that Mediation is twofold. The one, by the benefit whereof men are truely and effectually united unto God; and this Mediation we confesse, belongeth to no other then to a person indued with infinite vertue and power; and so that the New Covenant could admit of no other Mediatour then of one, ⟨p. 398⟩