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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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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 ⟨p. 337⟩out of the hands of his justice. And that is the first particular: you are in bondage to the curse of the law.
4. It is an unremoveable curse: if we looke upon any thing we can doe; 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 beleevers out of the hands of Gods mercy; so none can take unbeleevers ⟨p. 337⟩out of the hands of his justice. And that is the first particular: you are in bondage to the curse of the law.
2 You are in bondage to the rigour of the law: which requires in the rigour of it,
2 You are in bondage to the rigor of the law: which requires in the rigor of it,
1. Hard things, difficult things: look over the duties commanded, and see if they be not difficult things: Nay,