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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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2. 1Whether those be good and safe distinctions of qualification; 1. The qualifications in which or by which a soul comes to Christ, (which are said to be sense of need, Matth. 11.28. and hunger and thirst; spiritual poverty, Matth. 5. beg.) 2. The qualification which brings the soul to Christ, viz. faith. And then this the qualifications of grace, and the qualifications to grace; especially, if admitted, that those qualifications to grace are not of man, though in man.
2. 1Whether those be good and safe distinctions of qualification; 1. The qualifications in which or by which a soule comes to Christ, (which are said to be sense of need, Matth. 11.28. and hunger and thirst; spirituall povertie, Matth. 5. beg.) 2. The qualification which brings the soule to Christ, viz. faith. And then this the qualifications of grace, and the qualifications to grace; especially, if admitted, that those qualifications to grace are not of man, though in man.
- 1Duplex qualificatio, qua, & quae.
3. Whether there be not some works in order to grace, which may be said to be from the Spirit, but yet are not with the Spirit. I say from the spirit of sanctification, and yet not with the sanctifying spirit? As the light of the morning is from the Sun, yet not with the Sun.