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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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It were no justice for God to require the payment of Christ; nay to receive the full satisfaction of Christ, and to require any thing of thee. This God did, He laid on him the iniquity of us all, Isa. 53. and this hath Christ done; he paid God till he said, he had enough; he was fully satisfied, fully contented: This is my well-beloved Son, 1in whom I am well pleased; in whom I am fully satisfied and appeased. So the Apostle, 2 Cor. 5.1. God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, &c. He was paying himself out of the blood, scourges, and sufferings of Christ; and in that Christ made a full payment. Hence Christ saith, Joh. 16.10. I send my Spirit, and he shall convince the world, as of sin, so of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye shall see me no more; that is, you shall see me no more in this kind; you shall never see me again as a sufferer, as a satisfier of Gods Justice for sin more; I have done this. Indeed we should have seen Christ again if he had not satisfied Justice; if but the guilt of one of those sins he bare had lien on him unsatisfied ⟨p. 14⟩for, it would have held him under chains of death, the power of the grave, for ever; he could never have risen, much less have ascended, and gone to the Father, if he had not answered Justice to the full. And therefore the Apostle makes a challenge, he sets the death of Christ against what ever Sin, Satan, Justice, or Law can say, Rom. 8.33, 34. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect? It is God that justifieth: Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that dyed, yea rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. He says not, Who shall accuse, but, who condemn? Indeed we may have accusers enough, Sin, Satan, Conscience, &c. but none can condemn: the issues of life and death are not in their hand. And as none of our sins shall condemn us, so none of our sins shall put us into a state of condemnation more; none of our sins shall ever put us under the curse, under wrath again. And that is the second.