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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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4. That the law was never given as a Covenant of works, but added to the promise, by way of subserviency to the covenant of grace.
4. That the law was never given as a Covenant of works, but added to the promise, by way of subserviencie to the covenant of grace.
5. That though the law was given ⟨p. 149⟩with merciful purposes, and subservient to the covenant of grace; yet it seems to come handed to us, as though it were the repetition of another covenant of works under which we stand.
5. That though the law was given ⟨p. 149⟩with mercifull purposes, and subservient to the covenant of grace; yet it seemes to come handed to us, as though it were the repetition of another covenant of workes under which we stand.
Or rather the covenant of grace under the Old Testament seems to be so legally represented as if it were a covenant of works still to us. And it is worth our observation to see how the covenant of Grace like the Sun in the firmament, hath risen up still to further and further clearness; from Adam to Moses it was very dark and obscure; from Moses to the time of the Prophets the light began to appear. After the Prophets when John began his Ministry, then the light was more clearly revealed, under the Ministry of Christ, 1