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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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Whereupon the Jews answered (not those that believed, as appears by the 37. vers. for the same persons that thus answered, sought to kill him) We are Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man, how sayest thou, we shall be made free? Christ might have returned this impudent Cavil on them, 1by giving them to review their former state under the Egyptians, Babylonians, and present condition under the Romans, 2but passing by their corporal ⟨p. 3⟩bondage; he proves them to be in Spiritual, and soul bondage to sin. 34. vers. He that committeeth sin, is the servant of sin, but you commit sin. And having showed them their present sinful condition, he comes to tell them what shall be their future doom, they must be cast out of the house, though they were now in the Church of God, yet they should not continue in it, they must be cast out, as the Apostle saith, Gal. 34.30. Cast out the bond-woman and her son. And this he proves by setting down the condition of a servant and a son, the servant abideth not in the house for ever, but the son abideth for ever. 35. vers. And yet he leaves them not here under their sad doom, but propounds them a way to prevent it, and that is by endeavouring to get free, and then sets down the means how this freedom may be obtained, and that is by the Sonne. *Though the work be difficult, yet he that abides in the house for ever, he that is the Son can effect it: for if the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.
Whereupon the Iews answered (not those that beleeved, as appears by the 37. vers. for the same persons that thus answered, sought to kill him) We are Abrahams seed, and were never in bondage to any man, how sayest thou, we shall be made free? Christ might have returned this impudent Cavill on them, 1