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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Neither can we redeem our selves by price.
1. Neither can we redeeme our selves by price.
2. Nor deliver our selves by power or conquest.
1. We cannot redeem our selves by price. A man may be in bondage to men, and able to ransom himself; if not by his ⟨p. 332⟩own power, yet by the helps, collections, and contributions of others. But no man can redeem his own soul. Nay, all the contributions of men or Angels fall too short; 1they have but oil to serve themselves: It is set down not only as the proper work of Christ, but the greatest work which Christ hath done, to redeem his people from sin: Indeed he did it by price, 2Gal. 4.5. he bought us out, but it was not by silver and gold, as Peter tells us; 3the redemption of our souls is more precious, Psal. 49.7, 8. but it was by the blood of Christ.
1. We cannot redeeme our selves by price. A man may be in bondage to men, and able to ransome himselfe; if not by his