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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.
Contents: A Table of the main things contained in this following TREATISE.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The coherence of the text, and the doctrines contained in it. 1, 2, 3, 4. The main doctrine propounded, viz. That there is a true and real freedom which Christ hath purchased, and into which he hath instated all those who are true believers. 5. In the prosecution of which, 3. things are insisted on. 1. The quality. 2. The nature. 3. The parts of Christian freedom. 6. 1. The nature: and here are 4. kinds of freedom set down. 6, 7. 1. Natural. 2. Political. 3. Sensual. 4. Spiritual. 7, 8. 2. The quality of this freedom is set down. 9. 1. It is a real. 2. An universal. 3. A constant freedom. 9, 10 ⟨image 8⟩3. The parts of this freedom are two: 1. In grace. 2. In glory: and those 1. Privative: 2 Positive. 11 The particular branches of our inchoate freedom, or for our freedom here in grace. ib. 1. We are freed from Satan. ibid. 2. We are freed from sin. 1 the guilt of sin: 2 the defilement of sin: 3 the dominion of sin. 12 1 We are freed from guilt of sin, and this is laid down in two particulars. ibid. 1. That none of our sins shall condemn us. 13, 13 2. That none of our sins shall bring any fruits of wrath upon us. 14, 15 2. We are freed from the dominion of sin. 17, 18 3. Believers are freed from the law. 21 1. From the ceremonial. 21 2. From the moral law. 1. As a covenant: where divers opinions are propounded what kind of covenant it was. 22 2. We are free from the maledictions and curses of the law. 28, 29 3. We are free from the indictments and accusations of the law. 36, 37 4. We are freed from the rigour of the law. 47 Some particulars wherein the rigour of ⟨image 8⟩the law did consist. 47 1. It commanded impossible things. ib. 2. It required obedience in our own persons. 49 3. And this obedience universal, actual. 50 4. It enforced it self upon the conscience with threats and terror. 52 4. Believers are freed from obedience to men. 54, 55. 5. Believers are freed from death. 56, 57 And how said to be free from death. ib. 6. Believers shall be freed from the grave. 57 This laid down in 3. conclusions. 58, 59 2. The positive part of our freedom, or what we are freed unto. 59. This is briefly laid down in 7. particulars. 1. We are freed from a state of wrath, to a state of mercy. 59 2. We are freed from a state of condemnation to a state of justification. ibid. 3. We are freed from a state of enmity to a state of friendship. 60 4.
THe cohaerence of the text, and the doctrines contained in it. 1, 2, 3, 4. The maine doctrine propounded, viz. That there is a true and reall freedome which Christ hath purchased, and into which he hath instated all those who are true beleevers. 5. In the prosecution of which, 3. things are insisted on. 1. The qualitie. 2. The nature. 3. The parts of Christian freedome. 6. 1. The nature: and here are 4. kinds of freedome set downe. 6, 7. 1. Naturall. 2. Politicall. 3. Sensuall. 4. Spirituall. 7, 8. 2. The qualitie of this freedome is set downe. 9. 1. It is a reall. 2. An universall. 3. A constant freedome. 9, 10