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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 63: 63. Thesis.
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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.
This kinde of Coaction they feele 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 evill, by the feare 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 enclining unto evill: now that, a man may call a servile, this a sonlike filiall coaction.
- 1It is one in the godly, another in the ungodly.