A76991:929
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 15: 15. Thesis.
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15. Thesis.
Here again two Queries may be propounded, the first is this: 1. If the holiness and faith of Adam was mutable, how might he be said to be secure? And then in the second place: 2. After what manner holiness may be said to be the effect of faith so united to it, that it can be by no means separated from faith; seeing ⟨p. 364⟩that [hereafter] in the life to come, there is no place for faith, in which yet there is the greatest holiness.
Here againe two Queries may be propounded, the first is this: 1. If the holinesse and faith of Adam was mutable, how might he be said to be secure? And then in the second place: 2. After what manner holinesse may be said to be the effect of faith so united to it, that it can be by no meanes separated from faith; seeing ⟨p. 364⟩that [hereafter] in the life to come, there is no place for faith, in which yet there is the greatest holinesse.