A76991:917
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 10: 10. Thesis.
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10. Thesis.
Justice and Faith do differ; 1as giving, and receiving, for Justice gives to God [his due], Faith receives [from God what is not our due]; Justice is placed in the mutual Love of God, Faith in the persuasion of the love of God. But yet these are joined in an unseparable tie; yet so, as Faith doth precede, Love doth follow; Faith is the Cause, Love the effect; ⟨p. 359⟩Initial and weak faith, begets love, though less fervent: Perfect and complete faith, begets burning affections; therefore righteousness, or justice presupposeth (as they say) faith: and on the contrary, faith doth necessarily conclude [or presuppose] love, as the consequent of it.
Iustice and Faith doe differ; 1as giving, and receiving, for Iustice gives to God [his due], Faith receives [from God what is not our due]; Iustice is placed in the mutuall Love of God, Faith in the perswasion of the love of God. But yet these are ioyned in an unseparable tye; yet so, as Faith doth precede, Love doth follow; Faith is the Cause, Love the effect; ⟨p. 359⟩Initial and weake faith, begets love, though lesse fervent: Perfect and compleat faith, begets burning affections; therefore righteousnesse, or justice presupposeth (as they say) faith: and on the contrary, faith doth necessarily conclude [or presuppose] love, as the consequent of it.