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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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The work is great, for I am to deal with the greatest knots in the practical part of Divinity, and mens judgements are various, Scripture is pleaded on all hands: The more difficult the work, the more need of your prayers, that the Father of light, would go before us, and by his own light lead and guide us into the ways of all truth*.
The worke is great, for I am to deale with the greatest knots in the practicall part of Divinitie, and mens iudgements are various, Scripture is pleaded on all hands: The more difficult the worke, the more need of your prayers, that the Father of light, would goe before us, and by his owne light leade and guide us into the waies of all truth*.
- *Primium toto pectore precor ut Dominus noster Jesus Christus, qui factus est nobis a Deo patre, sapientia, justitia, sanctificatio, & redemptio, & in quo sunt omnes thesauri sapientiae & cognitionis absconditi, ut spiritu sancto suo sanctificet, et in omnem veritatem ducat, ad divinae suae gratiae gloriam, & aeternam nostram salutem. Aug. de ord. et modo praedestin. Cupimus enim investigare quid verum sit, neque id solum sed quod cum veritate pietatem quoque praeterea erga Deum hâbeat conjunctam. C. Sadol. in 8. Rom.
In confidence of which we shall adventure to launch into these deeps, and fall to the examination and trial of those Doctrines, which are deduced from, and would seem to be built upon this Text.
In confidence of which we shall adventure to lanch into these deepes, and fall to the examination and triall of those Doctrines, which are deduced from, and would seeme to be built upon this Text.