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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 28: 28. Thesis.
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28. Thesis.
But in that obscurity, 1it will be behovefull for us to observe the several and distinct gradations. Before the Law given by Moses, the promise was more obscure; and when the law was given, unto the times of the Prophets, it was somewhat clearer; from the times of the Prophets, unto John the Baptist, clearer yet; upon the preaching of John the Baptist, it was now manifest; and most of all manifest, when once our Lord Jesus Christ succeeded John [in person] who did both execute and promulge the counsel of the ⟨p. 370⟩Father, concerning the restoration of his Church; whilst he was in the executing of it, less clearly; after he had executed it, most clearly; first to his Apostles after his resurrection, and then after his ascension into heaven by the solemn mission of the Holy Ghost, iof which in its place.
But in that obscuritie, 1it will be behovefull for us to observe the severall and distinct gradations. Before the Law given by Moses, the promise was more obscure; and when the law was given, unto the times of the Prophets, it was somewhat clearer; from the times of the Prophets, unto Iohn the Baptist, clearer yet; upon the preaching of Iohn the Baptist, it was now manifest; and most of all manifest, when once our Lord Iesus Christ succeeded Iohn [in person] who did both execute and promulge the counsel of the ⟨p. 370⟩