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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 17: 17. Thesis.
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17. Thesis.
To the second Query we Answer. The persuasion of the love of God (which in this place we call faith) was either founded upon a Promise, but such as was not yet fulfilled; or else it was founded upon the sense of a Promise that was fulfilled already: This latter hath its place chiefly in the life to come; the former in this life also; which therefore the Apostle calls athe bsubstance of things hoped for; the cevidence of things not seen; and this is properly called faith, and is that which is required in justification.
To the second Query we Answer. The perswasion of the love of God (which in this place we call faith) was either founded upon a Promise, but such as was not yet fulfilled; or else it was founded upon the sense of a Promise that was fulfilled already: This latter hath its place chiefly in the life to come; the former in this life also; which therefore the Apostle cals athe bsubstance of things hoped for; the cevidence of things not seene; and this is properly called faith, and is that which is required in iustification.