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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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2. Foedus gratiae. The Covenant of grace made to us in Christ.
3. Foedus subserviens. Or the subservient Covenant, which they say, was the Covenant made here to the Jews, merely in way of subserviency to the Covenant of Grace in Christ. A preparing Covenant, to make way for the advancement of the Covenant of Grace in Christ: which as a Covenant is gone, though the subserviency of it doth still remain.
3. Foedus subserviens. Or the subservient Covenant, which they say, was the Covenant made here to the Iews, meerly in way of subserviencie to the Covenant of Grace in Christ. A preparing Covenant, to make way for the advancement of the Covenant of Grace in Christ: which as a Covenant is gone, though the subserviencie of it doth still remaine.
Others there are that say, There were never any but two Covenants made with man: one of Works, the other of Grace. The first in innocency, the other after the fall. But yet this Covenant of grace was so legally dispensed to the Jews, that it seems to be nothing else but the repetition ⟨p. 130⟩of the Covenant of works. In respect of which legal dispensations of it, the same Covenant under the law is called a covenant of Works; under the Gospel, in regard of the clearer manifestations of it, it is called a covenant of grace; but these were not two distinct covenants, but one and the same covenant diversly dispensed. And that the law could not be a covenant of works properly taken; I will give but these Arguments.
Others there are that say, There were never any but two Covenants made with man: one of Workes, the other of Grace. The first in innocency, the other after the fall. But yet this Covenant of grace was so legally dispensed to the Iews, that it seems to be nothing else but the repetition