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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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And this Christ implies in the 8. of John 35. The servant abideth not in the house for ever, but the son abideth for ever. The Apostle expresseth the same under an allusion, Gal. 5.22. where he distinguisheth between those who are under the law, and under the Gospel; the children of the bond-woman, and those of the free; the heirs of the promise, and the servants of the law; ⟨p. 11⟩the one must be cast out, saith Paul, and so Christ here: The servant abides not in the house for ever; they shall not inherit, but the Son abideth in the house for ever; they shall inherit, they shall enjoy a perpetual freedom, never again to return to bondage.
And this Christ implies in the 8. of Iohn 35. The servant abideth not in the house for ever, but the sonne abideth for ever. The Apostle expresseth the same under an allusion, Gal. 5.22. where he distinguisheth between those who are under the law, and under the Gospel; the children of the bond-woman, and those of the free; the heires of the promise, and the servants of the law; ⟨p. 11⟩the one must be cast out, saith Paul, and so Christ here: The servant abides not in the house for ever; they shall not inherit, but the Son abideth in the house for ever; they shall inherit, they shall enjoy a perpetuall freedome, never again to return to bondage.
3. We come now to the third thing propounded, the parts of this freedom.
3. We come now to the third thing propounded, the parts of this freedome.