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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 in these two, I have sufficiently answered the third Branch of the fifth Query, viz. Whether a Christian may not do duty with respect to the recompense of reward. I shall now hasten the rest—
And in these two, I have sufficiently answered the third Branch of the fifth Query, viz. Whether a Christian may not doe dutie with respect to the recompence of reward. I shall now hasten the rest—
We are now come to a sixth Query, which is; Whether this be part of our freedom by Christ, to be free from obedience unto man; or whether to obey men, be any infringement of our liberty by Christ.
We are now come to a sixt Query, which is; Whether this be part of our freedome by Christ, to be free from obedience unto man; or whether to obey men, be any infringement of our libertie by Christ.
Now before I come to the Answer of this; I must tell you, There are some places that seem to speak, that it doth not stand with Christian liberty to be obedient to man. We find in Scripture (as I showed you in the beginning of this Treatise) a double charge, 1. 1That man ⟨p. 320⟩should not usurp mastership: 2. That we should not undergo servitude.
Now before I come to the Answer of this; I must tell you, There are some places that seeme to speake, that it doth not stand with Christian libertie to be obedient to man. We finde in Scripture (as I shewed you in the beginning of this Treatise) a double charge, 1.