A76991:968
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 34: 34. Thesis.
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34. Thesis.
The efficacy of the mediation of Christ extended unto fewer, 1being at the first restrained and shut up in the family of the Patriarchs, afterwards, as that grew to be enlarged. It was shut up in the people of the Jews, this we conceive was done, for many reasons. First, that thereby the ⟨p. 377⟩coming of Christ might appear the more excellent and conspicuous, 2in the calling of the Gentiles. Secondly, that God might show mercy upon all, afor he hath concluded all under sin, therefore that he might have mercy upon all. Thirdly, that he might stand forth a most famous Type of election in the Jews, and rejection [or reprobation] in the Gentiles, to wit, of the Church of God, and of Satan.
The effioacie of the mediation of Christ extended unto fewer, 1being at the first restrained and shut up in the family of the Patriarchs, afterwards, as that grew to be enlarged. It was shut up in the people of the Iews, this we conceive was done, for many reasons. First, that thereby the ⟨p. 377⟩coming of Christ might appeare the more excellent and conspicuous, 2in the calling of the Gentiles. Secondly, that God might shew mercy upon all,