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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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God hath thoughts of love in all he doth to his people: the grounds of his dealings to us is love, though the occasion may be sin, the manner of his dealings are love, and the end of his dealings are love. 1. Our good here, to make us partakers of his holiness; As the Apostle saith. 2. Our glory hereafter, to make us partakers of his glory.
God hath thoughts of love in all he doth to his people: the grounds of his dealings to us is love, though the occasion may be sin, the manner of his dealings are love, and the end of his dealings are love. 1. Our good here, to make us partakers of his holinesse; As the Apostle saith. 2. Our glory hereafter, to make us partakers of his glory.
But now it is not so in Gods punishments of wicked men. Neither is the ground love, nor the manner love, nor the end love, all his dealings with them in this kind, they are parts of the curse, and parts of their demerits for sin. And that is the first particular branch, he hath freed us from the guilt of sin.
But now it is not so in Gods punishments of wicked men. Neither is the ground love, nor the manner love, nor the end love, all his dealings with them in this kind, they are parts of the curse, and parts of their demerits for sinne. And that is the first particular branch, he hath freed us from the guilt of sinne.
Secondly, Christ hath freed us from the Dominion of sin, Rom. 6.14, Sin shall not have dominion over you. Why? for saith he, You are not under the law, but under grace. Indeed while we were under the law sin had full dominion; it had not only possession in us, but dominion over us. And that dominion a voluntary, a willing, a free subjection and resignation of our selves, to the motions and services of sin. Then we went down stream, wind, and tide; there was both power of lust, and lustful