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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 44: 44. Thesis.
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44. Thesis.
The nature and condition of this Covenant, cannot be more certainly sought, or more easily found [out,] then by comparing it, first with the Covenant of Nature; and after that, with the Covenant of Grace; for it will so come to pass, by this search, that all those things being weighed, wherein it doth agree with those other Covenants, all its properties will be brought forth to light.
The nature and condition of this Covenant, cannot be more certainely sought, or more easily found [out,] then by comparing it, first with the Covenant of Nature; and after that, with the Covenant of Grace; for it will so come to passe, by this search, that all those things being weighed, wherein it doth agree with those other Covenants, all its properties wil be brought forth to light.
45. Thesis.
It agrees with the Covenant of Nature. 1First, for that in both [these Covenants] the one part contracting, [or Covenanting] is God, the other is man. Secondly, that both have their stipulation or condition annexed. Thirdly, that the stipulation is the same, as touching the Moral law. Fourthly, that the promise is the same in the general. Fifthly, for that both of them do lead us unto Christ.