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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.
1If you take Sanctification for a •reated gift, it is indeed but a Candle to the Sun. But when John •aketh it, but to confirm faith, •he ⟨p. 22⟩meaneth then, the Spirit of God beareth witness in it: or else the testimony of sanctification, though it be a divine gift or work, yet it would not give a divine testimony, nor increase divine faith; for the heavens and earth are divine and supernatural works, yet they do not give divine testimony of the Godhead, unless the Spirit of God himself do bear witness in them.
1If you take Sanctification for a •reated gift, it is indeed but a Candle to the Sunne. But when John •aketh it, but to confirme faith, •he ⟨p. 22⟩meaneth then, the Spirit of God beareth witnesse in it: or else the testimony of sanctification, though it be a divine gift or work, yet it would not give a divine testimony, nor increase divine faith; for the heavens and earth are divine and supernaturall works, yet they doe not give divine testimony of the Godhead, unlesse the Spirit of God himself doe beare witnesse in them.
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Therefore John giving sanctification for an evidence of a good estate, to such as already knew it, by the witness of the Spirit, is not a lighting of a candle to the Sun; but as the setting up of another window, though a lesser, to convey the same Sun light into the house another way.