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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 61: 61. Thesis.
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61. Thesis.
By Coaction here we understand, 1not that whereby the members of man are hurried on impetuously to the doing of those things, which by no means willingly they would do, but such a kind of Coaction [to] which there doth concur some consent of will, indeed that consent not absolute, and perfect, neither yet such as is compelled, for as much as to assent, and yet to be compelled, are repugnant.
By Coaction here we understand, 1not that whereby the members of man are hurried on impetuously to the doing of those things, which by no meanes willingly they would doe, but such a kinde of Coaction [to] which there doth concurre some consent of will, indeed that consent not absolute, and perfect, neither yet such as is compelled, for as much as to assent, and yet to be compelled, are repugnant.
- 1Coaction what it is.