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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. When we give too much scope to our selves in things that are lawful. It is an easy thing to run from use to abuse; of such men Jude speaks in the 4. verse of that Epistle: There are certain men turn the grace of God into wantonness.
4. When we give too much scope to our selves in things that are lawfull. It is an easie thing to runne from use to abuse; of such men Iude speakes in the 4. verse of that Epistle: There are certaine men turne the grace of God into wantonnesse.
5. When we do use it undutifully; ⟨p. 351⟩denying obedience to lawful Authority in things lawful upon pretence of Christian liberty; which is indeed to make the world level; and throw down all lawful Authority.
5. When we doe use it undutifully; ⟨p. 351⟩denying obedience to lawfull Authoritie in things lawfull upon pretence of Christian lihertie; which is indeed to make the world levell; and throw downe all lawfull Authoritie.
6. When we will be tied to nothing, bound to nothing but what our own spirits incline us to; of which I have spoken at large: and therefore I shall conclude all with the words of the Apostle, in the 1 Pet. 2.16. You are free, yet use not your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.