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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.
1Such conditional promises are not in vain, though poor drooping souls have found no comfort by them, and though they cannot suck present comfort from them, and from their good conditions accordingly to them.
1Such conditionall promises are not in vain, though poore drooping soules have found no comfort by them, and though they cannot suck present comfort from them, and from their good conditions accordingly to them.
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1Because these promises being discerned in a Covenant of free-grace made in Christ, by them do work (if they were not wrought before) or at least confirm such conditions in the soul. As when God promised ⟨p. 27⟩them to send a Redeemer out of Zion, unto them which turn from transgression in Jacob, Isai. 59. 20. the Apostle expoundeth it, That Christ shall come out of Zion, and shall turn away transgression from Jacob: which is as much as if he should say, He shall work that condition which the promise was made unto. And this the Apostle maketh to be the meaning, and the blessing of the promise, according to the Covenant of grace, Rom. 11. 26, 27.
1Because these promises being discerned in a Covenant of free-grace made in Christ, by them doe work (if they were not wrought before) or at least confirme such conditions in the soule. As when God promised ⟨p. 27⟩