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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
CERTAIN THESES, or, Positions of the Learned JOHN CAMERON, Concerni… › Thesis 79: 79. Thesis.
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79. Thesis.
And now I conceive lastly, 1it will not be amiss, in the place of a conclusion, to subjoin here, the Definitions, of those three Covenants, concerning which we have raised this dispute.
And now I conceive lastly, 1it will not be amisse, in the place of a conclusion, to subjoyne here, the Definitions, of those three Covenants, concerning which we have raised this dispute.
- 1The Definition.
80. Thesis.
The Covenant of Nature is that, 1whereby God, by right of Creation, doth require a perfect obedience of all mankind, and promises a most blessed life to as many as do give it him, to be lived in Paradise: but against those that deny him this perfect obedience, he doth denounce eternal death; and that for this end, that it may appear to all, how greatly he is in love with virtue, and how infinitely he hateth vice.