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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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Fourthly, they shall arise glorious bodies: Every one filled with brightness and splendour, shining as the Sun in the firmament, Dan. 12.3. Mat. 13.43. Conclusion. 2
Fourthly, they shall arise glorious bodies: Every one filled with brightnesse and splendor, shining as the Sun in the firmament, Dan. 12.3. Mat. 13.43. Conclusion. 2
The same bodies shall arise, the same soul shall be united to the same individual body again. And this is a mystery, the Philosophers dreamed of a transformation of bodies, or bodies transformed into new shapes, & a transmigration of souls, or fouls slitting into new bodies, but could never apprehend the truth of this the resurrection of the body, that the same individual numerical body after it is corrupted in the water, consumed by fire, converted into earth, vanished into air, nay caton up by ⟨p. 59⟩fishes, and those fishes eaten by men; it was above them to think this same individual and numerical body should rise again. When Paul disputed this point at Athens, the great Philosophers of the Epicureans laughed at him; What will this babbler say? they looked upon this as Babbling; but the Scripture tells us, That we shall see him with these same eyes, Job 19.27. And it suits with Gods justice, that the same bodies which have sinned or suffered, shall be punished, or rewarded.
The same bodies shall arise, the same soule shall be united to the same individuall body againe. And this is a mysterie, the Philosophers dreamed of a transformation of bodies, or bodies transformed into new shapes, & a transmigration of souls, or fouls slitting into new bodies, but could never apprehend the truth of this the resurrection of the body, that the same individuall numericall body after it is corrupted in the water, consumed by fire, converted into earth, vanished into aire, nay caton up by