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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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2. It is an unavoidable curse; as thou art a son of Adam, so thou art borne an heir to this curse.
2. It is an unavoydable curse; as thou art a sonne of Adam, so thou art borne an heire to this curse.
3. It is an unsupportable curse, which men nor Angels are able to bear: you see the Angels themselves they lye under it, and cannot help themselves: the wrath of man may be borne, at least undergone. It is but a wrath reacheth to the body; 1but who can bear the wrath of God? it is a wrath reacheth to the soul, and who knows, much less who can bear the power of his wrath?
3. It is an unsupportable curse, which men nor Angels are able to beare: you see the Angels themselves they lye under it, and cannot helpe themselves: the wrath of man may be borne, at least undergone. It is but a wrath reacheth to the body; 1but who can beare the wrath of God? it is a wrath reacheth to the soule, and who knowes, much lesse who can beare the power of his wrath?
- 1Parce precor Imperator; tu carcerem, ille Gehennam.
4. It is an unremovable curse: if we look upon any thing we can do; if God lay it on, it is not all the power and wit of men or Angels that can take it off. As none can take believers out of the hands of Gods mercy; so none can take unbelievers