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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. The first is Christian faith, vers. 3. of Jude, See that ye earnestly contend for the maintenance of the faith, which was once delivered to the Saints.
1. The first is Christian faith, vers. 3. of Iude, See that ye earnestly contend for the maintenance of the faith, which was once delivered to the Saints.
2. The second is Christian liberty, Gal. 5.1. Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free: Every man should be faithful in those things wherein he is entrusted; God hath entrusted you with precious things, Christian faith, and Christian liberty: and how careful should we be to maintain them? Civill and Corporal liberties they are very precious; how do we engage our selves now for our liberties, and our freedoms, against those who would deprive us of them? And indeed they may justly be esteemed they are men of abject minds, that would for any consideration forgo their freedoms and liberties.
2. The second is Christian libertie, Gal. 5.1. Stand fast in the libertie wherewith Christ hath made you free: Every man should be faithfull in those things wherein he is intrusted; God hath intrusted you with precious things, Christian faith, and Christian libertie: and how carefull should we be to maintaine them? Civill and Corporall liberties they are very precious; how doe we ingage our selves now for our liberties, and our freedomes, against those who would deprive us of them? And indeed they may justly be esteemed they are men of abiect minds, that would for any consideration forgoe their freedomes and liberties.