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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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And this we have proved by Scriptures, by a cloud of witnesses, the concordant testimony of some, and might of all the Reformed Churches: we have strengthened this by many Arguments, and given you some Applications of it.
We are now come to the second Position which we laid down in Answer to the Query which will be more knotty; but if we shall be able to make it good, it will at once vindicate the Law, and strike down those many erroneous Opinions that are on foot against it.
We are now come to the second Position which we laid downe in Answer to the Query which will be more knotty; but if we shall be able to make it good, it will at once vindicate the Law, and strike downe those many erroneous Opinions that are on foot against it.
The Position is this.
That there was no End or Use for which the Law was given, Posit. 2 but might consist with grace, and be serviceable to the advancement of the Covenant of grace.