A76991:977
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 38: 38. Thesis.
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38. Thesis.
1. 1For seeing this is the sum of the Gospel, or new Covenant, that all Mosaical *law-giving of Ceremonies is now ceased, §1and so the use of the law (under whose custody we were detained even to the Faith, which should afterwards be revealed) was abolished: Christ being now Crucified, dead and buried, and after that received into heaven. First, that remission of sins in his blood should be clearly and openly propounded, offered, and bestowed upon all, as many as by true faith believe that this Christ is both Lord and Saviour. Secondly, that the Spirit of Adoption should be sent into their hearts, who do this, with firm confidence of mind acquiesce in and rest upon this Redeemer, ⟨p. 379⟩that they no more now stand in need of the Pedagogy of the law, seeing they are *taught of God: certainly that doctrine concerning faith in Christ, could not properly be called Gospel (though called by that name) the Mosaical worship reigning, and that too by the allowance, and approbation of Christ, and those things not yet fulfilled, which are declared in the Gospel.
1. 1For seeing this is the summe of the Gospel, or new Covenant, that all Mosaicall