A76991:941
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 21: 21. Thesis.
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21. Thesis.
Which we do [thus explain]: 1The foundation and the Mediator of the Covenant of grace is our Lord Jesus Christ; but either as one to be incarnate, to be crucified, and to be raised from the dead; or as one being incarnate, being crucified, and being truly raised from the dead, gfor never any had his sins remitted, but in him alone, hwho is yesterday, and to day, and for ever, Jesus Christ, true God and true man. Therefore although he was God only before his incarnation, notwithstanding hitherto he was no otherwise a Mediator, then as God about to take upon him our flesh, and in it to perform the whole mystery of our Redemption; and hence it is, he is called the Lamb of God, slain from before the foundations of the world; and the Fathers were saved by his grace, even as we our selves are.4
Which we doe [thus explaine]: 1The foundation and the Mediatour of the Covenant of grace is our Lord Iesus Christ; but either as one to be incarnate, to be crucified, and to be raised from the dead; or as one being incarnate, being crucified, and being truely raised from the dead, gfor never any had his sinnes remitted, but in him alone, h