A76991:831
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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In the first place then. Use 1 Is it so, that Christ hath purchased and instated believers, and believers only into such a privilege? then what a fearful condition to be an unbeliever? you are still in bondage.
In the first place then. Vse 1 Is it so, that Christ hath purchased and instated beleevers, and beleevers only into such a priviledge? then what a fearefull condition to be an unbeleever? you are still in bondage.
1. You are in bondage to sin. 2. In bondage to Satan. 3. In bondage to the Law: and who can express a more miserable condition then this is? We will discover it to you.
1. You are in bondage to sinne. 2. In bondage to Satan. 3. In bondage to the Law: and who can expresse a more miserable condition then this is? We will discover it to you.
1. You are in bondage to sin, not only in bondage by sin, that is, by sin exposed; nay, and bound over to all evils, spiritual, temporal, and eternal, but you are in bondage to sin, you are under the commands of every lust. Every sin is a tyrant in the soul: Christ tells us, Joh. 8.34. Who ever committeth sin, is the servant of sin. First, you entertain sin as your friend, and afterwards it becomes your master; you are the servants of sin, Rom. 6.20. You are sold to sin, as the Apostle saith of his natural condition, Rom. 7.14. I am carnal, and sold under sin. Indeed we are all of us sold under sin by