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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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These two Queries the invalidness of them, and danger of them, we shall show afterwards; in the mean I must tell ⟨p. 46⟩you, that the Law in its directive power doth remain to us. And this must needs be plain from Galatians 3.17. The Law was given 430. years after the Promise.
These two Queries the invalidnesse of them, and danger of them, we shall shew afterwards; in the meane I must tell ⟨p. 46⟩you, that the Law in its directive power doth remaine to us. And this must needs be plaine from Galathians 3.17. The Law was given 430. years after the Promise.
1. Arg. If the Law was given 430. years after the Promise, then either as a Covenant, or as a Rule.
1. Arg. If the Law was given 430. yeares after the Promise, then either as a Covenant, or as a Rule.
But as a Covenant it could not be given; for then were God contrary to himself, first in giving a Covenant of Grace, then of Works. And therefore he gave it as a Rule, to discover to us after Justification by the Promise, a Rule of walking with God to all manner of pleasing.
But as a Covenant it could not be given; for then were God contrary to himselfe, first in giving a Covenant of Grace, then of Workes. And therefore he gave it as a Rule, to discover to us after Iustification by the Promise, a Rule of walking with God to all manner of pleasing.