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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 5: 5. Thesis.
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5. Thesis.
So great things, I say, because to prescribe a cmeasure of reward, is an action of a most free will not of Gods nature, when yet dto render any thing in reward of due service from the creature, and to promise that, doth altogether belong to the consequent love of God, which is not only voluntary love, but a natural property in God, who of his own proper nature doth incline to the reward of good, as to the punishment of evil; when the antecedent love of God is altogether voluntary.
So great things, I say, because to prescribe a cmeasure of reward, is an action of a most free will not of Gods nature, when yet dto render any thing in reward of due service from the creature, and to promise that, doth altogether belong to the consequent love of God, which is not only voluntary love, but a naturall propertie in God, who of his own proper nature doth incline to the reward of good, as to the punishment of evill; when the antecedent love of God is altogether voluntary.
- cMatth. 20.15.
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