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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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CERTAIN THESES, or, Positions of the Learned JOHN CAMERON, Concerni… › Thesis 80: 80. Thesis.
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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.
The Covenant of Nature is that, 1whereby God, by right of Creation, doth require a perfect obedience of all mankinde, and promises a most blessed life to as many as doe give it him, to be lived in Paradise: but against those that deny him this perfect obedience, he doth denounce eternall death; and that for this end, that it may appeare to all, how greatly he is in love with vertue, and how infinitely he hateth vice.
- 1Of the Covenant of Nature.