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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 4: 4. Thesis.
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4. Thesis.
For in the absolute Covenant, there is nothing in the creature that doth impel God either to promise, or to perform what he hath promised; But in that Covenant to which a restipulation is annexed, God doth fulfil what he hath promised, because the creature hath rendered what is required; And although God hath made such a Covenant, wherein he hath promised so great things, upon condition of mans performance, yet all this proceeds from the antecedent love of God.
For in the absolute Covenant, there is nothing in the creature that doth impell God either to promise, or to performe what he hath promised; But in that Covenant to which a restipulation is annexed, God doth fulfill what he hath promised, because the creature hath rendered what is required; And although God hath made such a Covenant, wherein he hath promised so great things, upon condition of mans performance, yet all this proceeds from the antecedent love of God.
5. Thesis.
So great things, I say, because to prescribe a c