A76991:944
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 23: 23. Thesis.
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23. Thesis.
To these we will speak severally. 1Before the first coming of Christ. That the way and manner of his mediation was propounded more obscurely, doth appear from hence, viz. The reading of the Books of the Sacred Volume, called the Old Testament; in which are handled [those things] concerning the person of Christ, concerning the way and manner of his execution of his Office of Mediatorship; and herein also is handled concerning the Office it self of Mediator-ship, and the benefits that flow from thence.
To these we will speake severally. 1Before the first coming of Christ. That the way and manner of his mediation was propounded more obscurely, doth appeare from hence, viz. The reading of the Bookes of the Sacred Volume, called the Old Testament; in which are handled [those things] concerning the person of Christ, concerning the way and manner of his execution of his Office of Mediatorship; and herein also is handled concerning the Office it selfe of Mediator-ship, and the benefits that flow from thence.
- 1The way of it under the Old Testament was most obscure.