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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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We are now to deal with the third thing, the answering of Objections.
We are now to deale with the third thing, the answering of Objections.
1. Object. We read that the Law was set up as a Covenant, and in that use certainly it could not stand with Grace, and therefore there were some ends and uses wherefore the law was given that are not consistent with Grace.
1. Obiect. We read that the Law was set up as a Covenant, and in that use certainly it could not stand with Grace, and therefore there were some ends and uses wherefore the law was given that are not consistent with Grace.
Now that it was set up as a Covenant, these places seem to declare, Exod. 19.4.6. Now therefore if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my Covenant, then you shall be a peculiar people; — But yet more plainly in Deut. 4.13. And the Lord declared to you his Covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten Commandments; and he wrote them upon two Tables of stone. Jer. 31.31, 32. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new Covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah. Not according to the Covenant I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. But this shall be the Covenant: I will put my laws into their hearts. So