A76991:936
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 19: 19. Thesis.
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19. Thesis.
We do therefore define beavenly life to be that, 1which Christ now liveth in the heavens; which is therefore called heavenly, because the first author of it is dthe heavenly man: and that [on the other hand] we call an animal life, which Adam lived before his fall, in Paradise; not differing at all in intension, but in extension only, and duration from that life which was to be perpetuated according to the perpetuating of his obedience; and so would have redounded unto all his posterity; like as that heavenly life, the possession whereof Christ is now entered into, doth belong, by right of adoption, unto all us who believe in Christ.
We doe therefore define beavenly life to be that, 1which Christ now liveth in the heavens; which is therefore called heavenly, because the first author of it is dthe heavenly man: and that [on the other hand] we call an animall life, which Adam lived before his fall, in Paradise; not differing at all in intension, but in extension onely, and duration from that life which was to be perpetnated according to the perpetuating of his obedience; and so would have redounded unto all his posteritie; like as that heavenly life, the possession whereof Christ is now entered into, doth belong, by right of adoption, unto all us who beleeve in Christ.
- 1The difference betwixt an animal life and a heavenly.