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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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It is not now, Do this and live; but believe, and thou shalt be saved: walk in the duties of the Law, but with a Gospel spirit, let the Law come in as a rule of Sanctification, but keep it out in point of Justification, any thing taken in here, one flaw here spoils all. It was well said of Luther, Walk in the heaven of the promise, but in the earth of the law; In the heaven of the promise, in respect of believing, and in the earth of the law, in respect of obeying, and so thou shalt give the law its honour, and Christ his glory.
It is not now, Doe this and live; but beleeve, and thou shalt be saved: walke in the duties of the Law, but with a Gospel spirit, let the Law come in as a rule of Sanctification, but keepe it out in point of Iustification, any thing taken in here, one flaw here spoiles all. It was well said of Luther, Walke in the heaven of the promise, but in the earth of the law; In the heaven of the promise, in respect of beleeving, and in the earth of the law, in respect of obeying, and so thou shalt give the law its honour, and Christ his glory.
2. Maintain it against men, Christian ⟨p. 345⟩liberty is a precious jewel, suffer not any to rob you of it. Let us never surrender up our judgements or our consciences to be disposed according to the opinions, and to be subjected to the sentences and determinations of men. Let neither power or policy, force or fraud rob you of this precious jewel. I shall speak only to this latter. Let not fraud and policy; the Apostle saith, stand fast and be not entangled, let us not return like willing slaves into our chains again. *It is a greater evil of a freeman to be made a slave, then to be a slave borne: Therefore take heed, be not tempted into slavery, as the fish into the net, be not ensnared and overwhelmed by the policies of men, we are warned to take heed none deceive us,