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 Camerons, touching the threefold Covenant of God with man, faithfully Translated, By Samuel Bolton Minister of the Word of God at Saviours-Southwark.Plane dicimus decessisse legem quoad onera, non quoad justitiam. Aug.1 Pet. 2.16. As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.LONDON, Printed by J. L. for Philemon Stephens, at the Golden-Lion in Pauls Church-yard. 1645.THE TRVE BOVNDS 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.Plane dicimus decessisse legem quoad onera, non quoad justitiam. Aug.1 Pet. 2.16. As free, and not using your libertie for a cloak of maliciousnesse, but as the servants of God.LONDON, Printed by J. L. for Philemon Stephens, at the Golden-Lion in Pauls Church-yard. 1645.Title page of The True Bounds of Christian Freedom, London, 1645The True Bounds of Christian FreedomSamuel Bolton, 1645

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Whence there ariseth a threefold question, neither unprofitable, nor difficult to unfold. 1. Why in the covenant of Nature God doth not in express terms require faith, but obedience and love? 2. By what right faith and justice, or righteousness are opposed in the covenant of Grace, seeing they cannot be separated? 3. Whether, and how that faith which exact justice doth presuppose in the covenant of Nature, doth differ from that faith which God requires in the covenant of Grace?

Whence there ariseth a threefold question, neither unprofitable, nor difficult to unfold. 1. Why in the covenant of Nature God doth not in expresse tearmes require faith, but odedience and love? 2. By what right faith and justice, or righteousnesse are opposed in the covenant of Grace, seeing they cannot be separated? 3. Whether, and how that faith which exact justice doth presuppose in the covenant of Nature, doth differ from that faith which God requires in the covenant of Grace?

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