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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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1. Hard things, difficult things: look over the duties commanded, and see if they be not difficult things: Nay,
2. It requires impossible things in the station wherein we are: It is a yoke we are not able to bear, Act. 15.10. We might as well be set to move mountains, to stop the Sun in its course, to fetch yonder Star from heaven, as to do what the law commandeth.
2. It requires impossible things in the station wherein we are: It is a yoake we are not able to bear, Act. 15.10. We might as well be set to move mountaines, to stop the Sunne in its course, to fetch yonder Starre from heaven, as to doe what the law commandeth.
3. And yet all this it requires to be done of us in the exactness, and according to the exactness of the command. It requires perfect obedience, both in respect of the principle, and in respect of the manner, and in respect of the end: it will abate nothing.
3. And yet all this it requires to be done of us in the exactnesse, and according to the exactnesse of the command. It requires perfect obedience, both in respect of the principle, and in respect of the manner, and in respect of the end: it will abate nothing.