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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.
So that in that same hour the Lord giveth him faith, he giveth him an evidence in himself,1 that he loved him in Christ before he was borne,2 before he had done good or evil,3 that he hath justified him from all those things he could not be justified by the Law,4 that he hath purged his conscience from all dead works, that his person is accepted, his sin discharged,5 and he hath a right to the purchased inheritance amongst them which are sanctified. Thus the love of Christ revealed to dye for him, to take away his iniquity, and reconcile him to God; the Spirit given to take away his heart of stone,6 giveth him an heart of flesh, to cause to walk in his statutes; yea, and draweth ⟨image 4⟩his heart to yield obedience to every commandment of Jesus the Christ. The truth of this grace given, Right Worshipful, you can give a true testimonial; for you were once in your natural condition as well as others, till it pleased God who separated you from the womb,7 to call you by his grace, to reveal his Son in you; you consulted not with flesh and blood, but left your native soil,8 (in the persecuting times of the Prelates) choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God (according to the light they had received) then to remain in England and enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Yet there the Lord exalted your Worship to be the Governor: And in that dawning light, coming forth out of mystical Babylon, the Lord discovered much spiritual knowledge, of the riches of his free-grace in Jesus Christ, amongst you; you being freed from the yoke of the TaskMasters ⟨image 5⟩