A76991:947
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 24: 24. Thesis.
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24. Thesis.
That his person is described obscurely, 1appears herein; that although it was clearly signified, that he should be true man, and that also he is true God; yet the conjunction of these two Natures, into a unity of Person, and the special designation of him from the circumstances, is not ⟨p. 368⟩so openly propounded, as that it could be an easy matter for the faithful, hereby to be able to attain to such a [distinct] knowledge of Christ, as we, who live under the New Covenant, now promulgated and ratified in the death and resurrection of Christ, do now attain unto; hereto belongs it, that his Person is so frequently shadowed out unto us under Types and Figures. Neither is it held forth to be looked upon, but as through a veil.
That his person is described obscurely, 1appeares herein; that although it was clearely signified, that he should be true man, and that also he is true God; yet the coniunction of these two Natures, into a unitie of Person, and the speciall designation of him from the circumstances, is not ⟨p. 368⟩so openly propounded, as that it could be an easie matter for the faithfull, hereby to be able to attaine to such a [distinct] knowledge of Christ, as we, who live under the New Covenant, now promulgated and ratified in the death and resurrection of Christ, doe now attaine unto; hereto belongs it, that his Person is so frequently shadowed out unto us under Types and Figures. Neither is it held forth to be lookt upon, but as through a vail.