A76991:963
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 32: 32. Thesis.
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32. Thesis.
To the third we Answer. The measure of faith to be the Word of God: and so, that to be true and saving faith which believes all those things, that have been revealed, and in the same manner as they have been revealed, and therefore the faith of the Fathers to have been saving faith, as being that which did believe all those things, which in those times it pleased God should be revealed; and it did believe them also after the same manner, wherein they were by God revealed unto ⟨p. 374⟩them, and we count [not that faith, but] a sacrilegious audaciousness, for any man to be wise above the word of God; and to attempt to know those things which God on set purpose hath propounded to us more hidden and obscurely.
To the third we Answer. The measure of faith to be the Word of God: and so, that to be true and saving faith which beleeves all those things, that have beene revealed, and in the same manner as they have beene revealed, and therefore the faith of the Fathers to have beene saving faith, as being that which did beleeve all those things, which in those times it pleased God should be revealed; and it did beleeve them also after the same manner, wherein they were by God revealed unto ⟨p. 374⟩them, and we count [not that faith, but] a sacrilegious audaciousnesse, for any man to be wise above the word of God; and to attempt to know those things which God on set purpose hath propounded to us more hidden and obscurely.