A76991:848
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 is a sad condition: In this condition thou art till Christ set thee free: but yet further,
3. Thou art in bondage to the Law, and that 1. To the curse: 2. To the rigour of the Law.
3. Thou art in bondage to the Law, and that 1. To the curse: 2. To the rigor of the Law.
1. Thou art in bondage to the curse of the law; to the penalties and forfeitures of the law: the Apostle tells us, Gal. 3.10. As many as are of the works of the law they are under the curse. And why so? For it is written, Cursed is every one who doth not continue in all things which are written in the Book of the law to do them, and that is impossible: and therefore you must needs be unavoidably under the curse.—
1. Thou art in bondage to the curse of the law; to the penalties and forfeitures of the law: the Apostle tels us, Gal. 3.10. As many as are of the workes of the law they are under the curse. And why so? For it is written, Cursed is every one who doth not continue in all things which are written in the Booke of the law to doe them, and that is impossible: and therefore you must needs be unavoidably under the curse.—