A76991:979
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 39: 39. Thesis.
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39. Thesis.
2. §2This very thing appeareth so to be from the form of the promulgation; For like as that Old Covenant (of which we shall speak somewhat by and by) awas promulgated, not without great pomp in the Mount Sinai, the people of Israel both hearing and beholding it, band swearing to it: so this New Covenant also fell out to be promulgated upon a set and solemn day, in a convention of almost all nations, with great splendour, so as it was, upon the feast day of Pentecost.
2. §2This very thing appeareth so to be from the forme of the promulgation; For like as that Old Covenant (of which wee shall speake somewhat by and by) awas promulgated, not without great pomp in the Mount Sinai, the people of Israel both hearing and beholding it, band swearing to it: so this New Covenant also fell out to be promulgated upon a set and solemn day, in a convention of almost all nations, with great splendour, so as it was, upon the feast day of Pentecost.