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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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Unto all this give me leave to add thus much in this unhappy difference, and we will conclude this Answer. I will but give you a few thoughts to consider of.
Vnto all this give me leave to add thus much in this unhappy difference, and we will conclude this Answer. I will but give you a few thoughts to consider of.
1. Sin doth naturally bring evil on us: as there is peace and good in the ways of holiness, so there is evil and trouble in the ways of sin; they are never separated: trouble is the natural and proper fruit of sin, that which it naturally bears. Nay it is in the very bowels of it: Sin is malum Catholicum: It is a big bellied evil; all evils are the births of sin: if you could rip up sin, you should find all evil in the bowels of it: there may be evil of punishment where there is no evil of sin in it; but all evil of punishment lies in the evil of sin: all the Commandments were given for ⟨p. 189⟩good, and your good lies in obedience to them. And he that breaks Gods bounds, doth necessarily run upon evil and trouble: Sin is the birth of our hearts, and trouble is the birth of sin; and trouble is as true a child of sin, as sin is the natural issue of our souls. This is the first: sin doth not only by consequence and Gods ordination, but naturally, bring evil and trouble.
1. Sinne doth naturally bring evill on us: as there is peace and good in the waies of holinesse, so there is evil and trouble in the waies of sinne; they are never separated: trouble is the naturall and proper fruit of sinne, that which it naturally beares. Nay it is in the very bowels of it: Sinne is malum Catholicum: It is a bigge bellied evill; all evils are the births of sinne: if you could rippe up sinne, you should find all evil in the bowels of it: there may be evil of punishment where there is no evill of sinne in it; but all evil of punishment lies in the evil of sinne: all the Commandements were given for ⟨p. 189⟩