A76991:942
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 22: 22. Thesis.
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22. Thesis.
But although the Son of God, before he manifested himself in the flesh, was in Gods account (to whom future things are present) therefore a Mediator because to come, and therefore truly through him were sins remitted; by his Spirit did ⟨p. 367⟩men both teach, and were taught; the Church by him was rightly governed; howbeit the way and manner of his mediation was propounded at the first more darkly; afterwards the force and efficacy of it became yet less: and lastly, it redounded but to very few.
But although the Sonne of God, before he manifested himselfe in the flesh, was in Gods account (to whom future things are present) therefore a Mediator because to come, and therefore truely through him were sinnes remitted; by his Spirit did ⟨p. 367⟩men both teach, and were taught; the Church by him was rightly governed; howbeit the way and manner of his mediation was propounded at the first more darkely; afterwards the force and efficacie of it became yet lesse: and lastly, it redounded but to very few.