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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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Who perhaps did reason with them, 6. Rom. That they might abound in sin because God hath abounded in grace; which was fearful, no reasoning of a child of God. And of the same men the Apostle speaks in 1 Pet. 2.16. As free, and not using your liberty as a cloak of maliciousness; that is, a pretence, or a colour to sin. But as the servants of God, &c. It is evil to ⟨p. 8⟩sin, to do any act of maliciousness, but much more to cloak it, cover it; and much more again to make Christian liberty the cloak of sin, that is most damnable; to make Religion, to make the truth of God, to make Christian liberty so dearly purchased, a cloak or pretence to sin; or to take occasion to sin by it, is a fearful sin.
Who perhaps did reason with them, 6. Rom. That they might abound in sinne because God hath abounded in grace; which was fearefull, no reasoning of a child of God. And of the same men the Apostle speaks in 1 Pet. 2.16. As free, and not using your libertie as a cloake of maliciousnesse; that is, a pretence, or a colour to sin. But as the servants of God, &c. It is evill to ⟨p. 8⟩sinne, to doe any act of maliciousnesse, but much more to cloake it, cover it; and much more againe to make Christian libertie the cloake of sinne, that is most damnable; to make Religion, to make the truth of God, to make Christian liberty so dearely purchased, a cloake or pretence to sinne; or to take occasion to sinne by it, is a fearefull sinne.
But of this Christ doth not here speak, this is our bondage, and not our freedom as I shall show you.
But of this Christ doth not here speake, this is our bondage, and not our freedome as I shall shew you.