A76991:997
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 48: 48. Thesis.
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48. Thesis.
To the first I Answer. 1The Covenant of Nature brings men by accident unto Christ, in that it showed what man is indebted unto God, and how sore punishment abideth him, who doth not pay this debt; whence it compels a man to look to the Mediator, seeing he beholds himself both unable to discharge the debt, and as unable every whit to undergo the punishment.
To the first I Answer. 1The Covenant of Nature brings men by accident unto Christ, in that it shewed what man is indebted unto God, and how sore punishment abideth him, who doth not pay this debt; whence it compels a man to looke to the Mediatour, seeing he beholds himself both unable to discharge the debt, and as unable every whit to undergoe the punishment.
- 1The Covenant of Nature leadeth unto Christ.
49. Thesis.
Nevertheless,