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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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You may see both these plainly if you compare these two places, the one is 23. Matth. 10. Be not called masters, for one is your Master Christ. Ephe. 5.7. Servants be obedient to your masters according to the flesh. Which two places being considered, do furnish us with this distinction. There are masters according to the flesh, and masters according to the spirit: we have masters according to the flesh, that is, so far as appertains to the outward man in outward things; But we have no masters according to the spirit, we have none to ⟨p. 323⟩whom we are to subject our souls and consciences, but only Christ; as in this sense we have no father, so we have no master upon earth.
You may see both these plainely if you compare these two places, the one is 23. Matth. 10. Be not called masters, for one is your Master Christ. Ephe. 5.7. Servants be obedient to your masters according to the flesh. Which two places being considered, do furnish us with this distinction. There are masters according to the flesh, and masters according to the spirit: wee have masters according to the flesh, that is, so farre as appertaines to the outward man in outward things; But we have no masters according to the spirit, wee have none to ⟨p. 323⟩whom we are to subiect our souls and consciences, but onely Christ; as in this sense we have no father, so we have no master upon earth.
Ob. But you will say, Is it not lawful for a Magistrate to impose such things upon mens practise, which do concern their consciences?