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A conference Mr. John Cotton held at Boston with the elders of New-England 1.…
A conference Mr. John Cotton held at Boston with the elders of New-England 1. concerning gracious conditions in the soul before faith, 2. evidencing justification by sanctification, 3. touching the active power of faith : twelve reasons against stinted forms of prayer and praise : together with the difference between the Christian and antichristian church / written by Francis Cornwall ...A conference Mr. John Cotton held at Boston with the elders of New-England 1. concerning gracious conditions in the soule before faith, 2. evidencing justification by sanctification, 3. touching the active power of faith : twelve reasons against stinted forms of prayer and praise : together with the difference between the Christian and antichristian church / written by Francis Cornwell ...
London: printed by J. Dawson, 1646
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The sixth Argument.
The sixth Argumont.
Such a Faith as a practical Syllogism can make, is not a Faith ⟨p. 17⟩wrought by the Lords Almighty power: For though Sillogismus •i•em facit; yet such a faith is but an humane faith; because the Conclusion followeth but from the strength of reasonings, or reason; not from the power of God, by which alone Divine things are wrought, Ephes. •. 19. 20. Col. 2. 20.
Such a Faith as a practicall Sillogisme can make, is not a Faith ⟨p. 17⟩wrought by the Lords Almighty power: For though Sillogismus •i•em facit; yet such a faith is but an •umane faith; because the Conclusion followeth but from the strength of reasonings, or reason; not from the power of God, by which alone Divine things are wrought, Ephes. •. 19. 20. Col. 2. 20.
But the Faith which is wrought by a word, and a work, and the light of a renewed Conscience without the witness of the spirit; and before it, is such a Faith as a practical Syllogism can make.