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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.
1The conditional promises are made to poor drooping souls, no• in respect of such conditions, or as ⟨p. 24⟩they are qualified with such gifts and duties of sanctification; but in respect of their union with Christ, to whom the promises belong, Gal. 3. 26, 28, 29. The fruits of such an union with Christ, such duties and gifts of sanctification be, when they be sincere: otherwise, if the promises were made to such souls, in respect of such conditions, then the reward promised would belong unto them, not of grace, but of debt, Rom. 4. 4. A promise made to any condition, after it be made, it becometh due debt to him, in whomsoever such condition is to be found: But therefore that such promises might be of grace, they are made to us, not as we are endued with such and such conditions; but as we who have such and such conditions are united unto Christ. Whence it is, that such blessings offered in such promises, as they are tendered to us in Christ, so are they fulfilled to us in Christ. Whereupon, ⟨p. 25⟩we look for the blessing, not in our gifts and duties; but in going still unto Christ, for a clearer and fuller manifestation of him to us, and of comfort in him. As for example, A thirsty soul, to whom promise is made that he shall be satisfied; he looketh not presently to be satisfied from his thirsting, nor from any right his thirsting might give him in the promise; but he looketh to be satisfied by going unto Christ, in drinking more abundantly of him by his Spirit, as Christ himself directeth such drooping souls to do: and so we are to make use of such kind of promises; Joh. 7. 37, 38, 39.
1The conditionall promises are made to poore drooping soules, no• in respect of such conditions, or as ⟨p. 24⟩