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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 7: 7. Thesis.
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7. Thesis.
We say therefore there is a Covenant of Nature, 1another Covenant of Grace, and another Subservient to the Covenant of Grace; (which is called in Scripture, the eold Covenant) and therefore we will deal with that in the last place; giving the first place to the Covenant of Nature, and of Grace; because they are the chief, and because they have no respect to any other Covenant: although we do not deny the Covenant of Nature, in this corruption of our nature, to be subservient to the Covenant of Grace, as it doth inflame the minds of men with the desire of it; which thing yet it doth by accident: Seeing this is not the Scope of that Covenant, of which we shall speak more largely fhereafter.
We say therefore there is a Covenant of Nature, 1another Covenant of Grace, and another Subservient to the Covenant of Grace; (which is called in Scripture, the eold Covenant) and therefore we will deale with that in the last place; giving the first place to the Covenant of Nature, and of Grace; because they are the chiefe, and because they have no respect to any other Covenant: although we doe not deny the Covenant of Nature, in this corruption of our nature, to be subservient to the Covenant of Grace, as it doth inflame the minds of men with the desire of it; which thing yet it doth by accident: Seeing this is not the Scope of that Covenant, of which we shall speake more largely