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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 13: 13. Thesis.
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13. Thesis.
To the second Question we answer; 1that faith in the covenant of Grace is not therefore opposed to the righteousness of man; Because formerly they were not able to consist together; or for that they could not be together (yea verily as hath been said, they mutually grant and ⟨p. 361⟩deny each other) but because in one and the same Court (as we may so speak) they cannot concur together to the justifying, or acquitting of a man; for in the Court of Justice, in which it is so called Justice, from the covenant of Nature; either the just man is acquitted, or the unjust man is condemned: Neither is it here directly questioned, whether hast thou believed that thou art precious unto God; but whether hast thou loved God? Whereas in the Court of Mercy this is not [primarily] and properly demanded, whether hast thou loved God? but, whether or no, hast thou believed? and if thou hast believed, thou shalt thereupon be acquitted; and if not, thou art then immediately bound over to the Court of justice [there to answer it.]
To the second Question we answer; 1that faith in the covenant of Grace is not therefore opposed to the righteousnesse of man; Because formerly they were not able to consist together; or for that they could not be together (yea verily as hath beene said, they mutually grant and ⟨p. 361⟩deny each other) but because in one and the same Court (as we may so speake) they cannot concur together to the iustifying, or acquitting of a man; for in the Court of Iustice, in which it is so called Iustice, from the covenant of Nature; either the iust man is acquitted, or the unjust man is condemned: Neither is it here directly questioned, whether hast thou beleeved that thou art precious unto God; but whether hast thou loved God? Whereas in the Court of Mercy this is not [primarily] and properly demanded, whether hast thou loved God? but, whether or no, hast thou beleeved? and if thou hast believed, thou shalt thereupon be acquitted; and if not, thou art then immediately bound over to the Court of justice [there to answer it.]