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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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Hence the Apostle, Rom. 8.1. There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ, that is, to them who are not under the law.
Were you indeed under the law as a covenant, there were condemnation, nothing else but condemnation. Though the law be not able to save you, yet it is able to condemn you, though not able to bestow the blessing; yet it can pour the curse upon you, Gal. 3.10. As many as are of the works of the law, (that is under the law, as a covenant that look for life and justification thereby) they are under the curse. And he useth this Argument, For it is written: 1Cursed is he that doth not obey in all things, declaring he must needs be under the curse; because it is not possible to obey in all things, and to fail in any, you are left under the curse.
Were you indeed under the law as a covenant, there were condemnation, nothing else but condemnation. Though the law be not able to save you, yet it is able to condemn you, though not able to bestow the blessing; yet it can poure the curse upon you, Gal. 3.10. As many as are of the works of the law, (that is under the law, as a covenant that look for life and justification thereby) they are under the curse. And he useth this Argument, For it is written: 1Cursed is he that doth not obey in all things, declaring he must needs be under the curse; because it is not possible to obey in all things, and to faile in any, you are left under the curse.
- 1Lex nos reos facit jubendo, & non adjuvando, Aug.