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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 35: 35. Thesis.
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35. Thesis.
But yet as our Lord Jesus Christ, by taking upon him at times mans shape, was pleased so to appear unto the Fathers, that hereby he might as it were fore-act his future incarnation: so in like manner, but few of the Gentiles, before the coming of Christ, were received into the Church of God, that hereby he might stand forth a Praeludium also, of the future calling of the Gentiles.
But yet as our Lord Iesus Christ, by taking upon him at times mans shape, was pleased so to appear unto the Fathers, that hereby he might as it were fore-act his future incarnation: so in like manner, but few of the Gentiles, before the coming of Christ, were received into the Church of God, that hereby hee might stand forth a Praeludium also, of the future calling of the Gentiles.
36. Thesis.
Thus much concerning the Covenant promised. 1The beginning of the Covenant promulged is to be fetched from that time, wherein Christ had fulfilled all things, which either in the Law were shadowed out, or had in the Prophets been fore-told concerning him, that is to say, ⟨p. 378⟩