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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.
And seeing they that are the chief Reformers of the Protestant Assemblies, do generally make sanctification a fruit of faith, and do define faith to be, A special assurance of mercy in Christ; it must needs be out of controversy their judgement, That a man receiveth his first assurance, not from his sanctification, which they make to be an effect flowing from it; but from an higher principle, even from the grace of the Father, and the righteousness of the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ; and witnessed by the holy Spirit.
And seeing they that are the chief Reformers of the Protestant Assemblies, doe generally make sanctification a fruit of faith, and doe define faith to be, A speciall assurance of mercy in Christ; it must needs be out of controversie their judgement, That a man receiveth his first assurance, not from his sanctification, which they make to be an effect flowing from it; but from an higher principle, even from the grace of the Father, and the righteousnesse of the Sonne, the Lord Jesus Christ; and witnessed by the holy Spirit.
Bilney, in the Book of Martyrs, in his Epistle to B. Tu•stall, relating the manner of his conversion, protested, That when he had wearied himself in many superstitious works ⟨p. 32⟩of fasting, and Popish penance, he received at last his first assurance, from that place in Timothy, 1 Tim. 1. 15. he calleth it a most sweet word unto him, This is a true saying, and worthy of all men to be received, Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief. A word from an absolute promise, set home unto him by the •oly Spirit, without respect of any sanctification formerly wrought or seen in him.
Bilney, in the Book of Martyrs, in his Epistle to B. Tu•stall, relating the manner of his conversion, proested, That when hee had wearied himself in many superstitious works