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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. This was not spoken of the law abstractly, and separately considered; but of the Law and Promise jointly; not of the Law exclusively, but of the Law inclusively, as including the Promise; as having the Promise involved with it.
2. This was not spoken of the law abstractly, and separately considered; but of the Law and Promise ioyntly; not of the Law exclusively, but of the Law inclusively, as including the Promise; as having the Promise involved with it.
3. He doth not bid them Do and live by doing; but do and live in doing; we may live [in] obedience, though we do not, nor cannot live [by] obedience. We could not live by them, till we had life; but that is not by doing, but by believing, as Christ saith, You would not come to me ⟨p. 155⟩that you might have life; that was not by works, but by grace. If there had been a law given that could have given life, either life that we might obey, or life upon our obedience; verily righteousness should have been by the law.
3. He doth not bid them Doe and live by doing; but doe and live in doing; we may live [in] obedience, though we doe not, nor cannot live [by] obedience. We could not live by them, till we had life; but that is not by doing, but by beleeving, as Christ saith, You would not come to me ⟨p. 155⟩that you might have life; that was not by works, but by grace. If there had beene a law given that could have given life, either life that we might obey, or life upon our obedience; verily righteousnesse should have beene by the law.