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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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A Preface to the ensuing Discourse of the Learned John Cameron.
A Preface to the ensuing Discourse of the Learned Iohn Cameron.
Christian Reader,
Goodness and light are of a diffusive nature; 1Birds when they come to a full heap of corn, 2will chirp and call in for their fellows; After much search I think I have found a full floor, and have unlocked the doors; yea brought it forth to invite others to feed upon it. It is a Discourse of that Learned and famous Divine Mr. JOHN CAMERON, Concerning the threefold Covenant of God with man. It is the Key to the Gospel, and the best resolver that I have met with all of those intricate Controversies, and Disputes Concerning the Law; we read often in Scripture that the Law was a Covenant, and more frequently among Divines, that we are free from the Law as a Covenant, but to tell us what Covenant this was, hath not been the work of many; that it was not a Covenant of works, I have showed at large in the foregoing Discourse; and if a Covenant of Grace, how are we said to be ⟨image 194⟩freed from it; in this ensuing Discourse this doubt is resolved; and being thereby in some good measure satisfied my self, I have here annexed it to do the like for thee. It was first written in Latin, and for their sakes who understand not that Language, I thought good not only with Sampson, to impart the sweetness, but, which was more then he would do, unfold the Riddle also; and to render to you these excellent labours (too precious to be any longer concealed, or hid under the shell of an unknown tongue) in your own native language. In which (so far as that restraint would not darken the sense) I have kept me to the propriety of the Language. I will keep thee no longer off, but shall now give thee leave to feast thy self upon his plenty, by which (as by all the labours of the Saints) that thou may grow up in light, and love; Grace and life; is the earnest prayer of him