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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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CERTAIN THESES, or, Positions of the Learned JOHN CAMERON, Concerni… › Thesis 62: 62. Thesis.
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62. Thesis.
This so comes to pass, when what we hate in it self, our wills do yet embrace, either for the avoidance of something, which we more hate; or for the achievement of something, the love of which ⟨p. 391⟩doth more earnestly enflame us, then did the hatred of that; which we yet desire, for the achievement of this.
This so comes to passe, when what we hate in it selfe, our wils doe yet embrace, either for the avoydance of something, which we more hate; or for the atchievement of something, the love of which ⟨p. 391⟩doth more earnestly enslame us, then did the hatred of that; which we yet desire, for the atchievement of this.
63. Thesis.
This kind of Coaction they feel who ever are restrained, 1by the Covenant of Nature, or by that which is Subservient, from their outward impieties; yet so, as different sorts of men, after a diverse, and a different manner; for verily wicked men, are only scared from evil, by the fear of punishment, denounced in the Covenant against them, whereas the godly are also drawn by the love of God Covenanting with them; notwithstanding, of themselves they are inclining unto evil: now that, a man may call a servile, this a sonlike filial coaction.