A76991:894
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 3: 3. Thesis.
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3. Thesis.
This distinction of the Covenant, doth depend upon the distinction of the love of God, and for there is love of God to the creature; from whence every thing that is good in the creature hath wholly flowed, & there is the acquiescent love of God in the creature; and this the creature hath received; not for any thing from it self, but from God, as it was loved with that first love of God; that love, for better understanding, we call Gods primary or antecedent; this, Gods secondary or consequent love: from that we say, doth depend both the paction and fulfilling of the absolute Covenant, from this depends the fulfilling of that Covenant, to which is annexed a restipulation, not so the paction, for that we say, depends on the first love.
This distinction of the Covenant, doth depend upon the distinction of the love of God, and for there is love of God to the creature; from whence every thing that is good in the creature hath wholly flowed, & there is the acquiescent love of God in the creature; and this the creature hath received; not for any thing from it selfe, but from God, as it was loved with that first love of God; that love, for better understanding, we call Gods primary or antecedent; this, Gods secundary or consequent love: from that we say, doth depend both the paction and fulfilling of the absolute Covenant, from this depends the fulfilling of that Covenant, to which is annexed a restipulation, not so the paction, for that we say, depends on the first love.