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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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When God doth chastise his people for sin, Position. 4 his chastisements, they are not, 1. fruits of Wrath, or parts of the Curse, there is no wrath in them; 2. they are not satisfactions for sin; 3. they are not out of vindictive Justice; 4. they are not merely penal; but medicinal; 5 the ground is displeased love, and the end is fuller embraces.
When God doth chastise his people for sinne, Position. 4 his chastisements, they are not, 1. fruits of Wrath, or parts of the Curse, there is no wrath in them; 2. they are not satisfactions for sin; 3. they are not out of vindictive Iustice; 4. they are not meerly poenall; but medicinall; 5 the ground is displeased love, and the end is fuller embraces.
And this shall suffice for the answer to the second Query, which I hope may satisfy. We will come to the next, the third Query.
And this shall suffice for the answer to the second Query, which I hope may satisfie. Wee will come to the next, the third Query.
Whether this may consist with our Christian freedom, to be tied to do duty because God hath commanded. The question might have been parted into two, 1. whether it may consist with our Christian freedom, to be tied to the doing of duty; and then 2. whether to be tied to the doing of them because God hath commanded.
Whether this may consist with our Christian freedom, to be tyed to doe duty because God hath commanded. The question might have been parted into two, 1. whether it may consist with our Christian freedome, to be tyed to the doing of dutie; and then 2. whether to be tyed to the doing of them because God hath commanded.