A76991:959
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 30: 30. Thesis.
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30. Thesis.
To the first we Answer; 1That those things were propounded more obscurely. First, because they were to come; and prophesies, before the completion of them, ought to be more obscure, at least as respecting their manner of fulfilling, especially when it is done amongst those by whom they were to be fulfilled. Secondly, kthe Church was then raw and in her infancy; she had not as yet attained ⟨p. 371⟩to her ripe age, God so ordering the matter as best seemed him, in his great Wisdom. Thirdly, for that it was meet to refer the clear manifestation of this Mystery, for Christ the great Prophet. Fourthly, lfor that their minds were to be held up in expectation of Christ; but now the hope which is seen is not hope: in a way not much unlike to this, is our condition in the life to come, propounded to us here more obscurely.
To the first we Answer; 1That those things were propounded more obscurely. First, because they were to come; and prophesies, before the completion of them, ought to be more obscure, at least as respecting their manner of fulfilling, especially when it is done amongst those by whom they were to be fulfilled. Secondly, k