A76991:973
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 36: 36. Thesis.
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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⟩from the time of his Ascension; at what time, being lifted up to heaven, he entered with his body thereinto, and declared that he had sent into the hearts of his Apostles his Spirit, the Comforter, at the feast of Pentecost, in a visible shape with fiery cloven tongues.
Thus much concerning the Covenant promised. 1The beginning of the Covenant promulged is to be fetch'd from that time, wherein Christ had fulfilled all things, which either in the Law were shadowed out, or had in the Prophets beene fore-told concerning him, that is to say, ⟨p. 378⟩from the time of his Ascension; at what time, being lifted up to heaven, he entred with his body thereinto, and declar'd that he had sent into the hearts of his Apostles his Spirit, the Comforter, at the feast of Pentecost, in a visible shape with fiery cloven tongues.
- 1At what time the Covenant of Grace was promulgated.