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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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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.
Fourthly, There is a spiritual and heavenly freedom; a freedom purchased by Christ, revealed in the Gospel, conveyed to the Saints, as the great dowry of Christ to his Church and Spouse.
Fourthly, There is a spirituall and heavenly freedome; a freedome purchased by Christ, revealed in the Gospel, conveyed to the Saints, as the great dowry of Christ to his Church and Spouse.
There are two great things Christ hath entrusted into the hands of his Church: First, Christian faith. Secondly, Christian liberty. And as we are to contend earnestly for the maintenance of the faith, as the Apostle saith, 1Jude 3. So also for the maintenance of Christian liberty, 2against all oppugners and underminers of it. Gal. 5.1. Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ made you free. And much like to this is that of the Apostle, You are bought with a price, be ⟨p. 9⟩no more the servants of men, 1 Cor. 7.23