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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. There is a second way, whereby we do abuse our Christian liberty; and that is when we use it to superstition, many will say they have Christian liberty; and therefore dare venture upon any observations, customs and gestures, although never warranted by the Word; this indeed is Christian licentiousness, not Christian liberty; Christian liberty is yet a bounded liberty, bounded with Laws and Rules; but these are men within no bounds, and therefore Libertines.
2. There is a second way, whereby we doe abuse our Christian libertie; and that is when we use it to superstition, many will say they have Christian libertie; and therefore dare venture upon any observations, customes and gestures, although never warranted by the Word; this indeed is Christian licenciousnesse, not Christian libertie; Christian libertie is yet a bounded libertie, bounded with Laws and Rules; but these are men within no bounds, and therefore Libertines.
3. We do abuse it when we make void the law of God; as I have showed you at large, when we shall judge it our liberty to be exempted from duty; which indeed is true bondage, no Christian liberty. The liberty of a Christian lies not in exemption from service, but in service; surely that man is yet in bondage who doth not judge service his liberty.
3. We doe abuse it when we make void the law of God; as I have shewed you at large, when we shall iudge it our libertie to be exempted from dutie; which indeed is true bondage, no Christian libertie. The libertie of a Christian lies not in exemption from service, but in service; surely that man is yet in bondage who doth not judge service his libertie.