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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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And here will be the answer to another scruple too: Scrup. 2 you shall hear some say, I fear my desires are not true; for I desire not grace for it self, but grace for glory, grace for heaven.
And here will be the answer to another scruple too: Scrup. 2 you shall heare some say, I feare my desires are not true; for I desire not grace for it selfe, but grace for glory, grace for heaven.
To whom I might also say, Answ. conceive aright of heaven; look not upon it with a carnal eye, a place of freedom from a sensitive misery, and enjoyment of sensitive happiness and pleasure: but look upon it as a place wherein thou hast communion with God, enjoyment of Christ, perfection and fullness of grace, freedom from all sin, from every corruption, and spiritual imperfection; and thou mayest desire grace for heaven. Indeed if you should look upon grace and heaven as two divers things, you might err in desiring grace for heaven; but look upon heaven as it is fullness of Grace, — and then thou mayst desire grace for heaven. Thou mayst desire Grace here as the beginning of heaven, the earnest of glory, and as that which may entitle thee to perfection and fullness of Grace hereafter. —
To whom I might also say, Answ. conceive aright of heaven; looke not upon it with a carnall eye, a place of freedome from a sensitive misery, and inioyment of sensitive happinesse and pleasure: but looke upon it as a place wherein thou hast communion with God, inioyment of Christ, perfection and fulnesse of grace, freedome from all sinne, from every corruption, and spirituall imperfection; and thou maist desire grace for heaven. Indeed if you should look upon grace and heaven as two divers things, you might erre in desiring grace for heaven; but looke upon heaven as it is fulnesse of Grace, — and then thou mayst desire grace for heaven. Thou mayst desire Grace here as the beginning of heaven, the earnest of glory, and as that which may intitle thee to perfection and fulnesse of Grace hereafter. —