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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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CERTAIN THESES, or, Positions of the Learned JOHN CAMERON, Concerni… › Thesis 1: 1. Thesis.
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1. Thesis.
Covenant in Scripture, 1doth sometimes signify the absolute promise of God, without any restipulation; as was that Covenant which God made with aNoah presently after the flood, freely promising never to destroy the world again by water; of this kind bis that Covenant, in which God promiseth to give unto his Elect, faith and perseverance: to which promise there cannot be conceived any condition to to be annexed, which is not comprehended in the promise it self.
COvenant in Scripture, 1doth sometimes signifie the absolute promise of God, without any restipulation; as was that Covenant which God made with aNoah presently after the flood, freely promising never to destroy the world againe by water; of this kinde bis that Covenant, in which God promiseth to give unto his Elect, faith and perseverance: to which promise there cannot be conceived any condition to to be annexed, which is not comprehended in the promise it selfe.