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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
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Zancheus his judgement, though he was a godly and an eminent learned man, yet I would not have named him, but that Mr. Perkins highly approved his discourse, and translated it, as a choice piece, into his own Volume, which maketh it obvious to every godly Reader, that studieth Perkins learned Works; ⟨p. 33⟩Page 429. the first testimony, saith Zanchey▪ and Por•ius, for him; by which God assureth us of our election, is that inward testimony of the Spirit, of which the Apostle Paul speaketh, Rom. 8. 16. The Spirit witnesseth to our spirits, that we are the sons of God; And afterward coming to give some direction how a man may know, whether this testimony be true, and proceedeth from the holy Spirit, or no.
Zancheus his judgement, though he was a godly and an eminent learned man, yet I would not have named him, but that Mr. Perkins highly approved his discourse, and translated it, as a choyce piece, into his owne Volume, which maketh it obvious to every godly Reader, that studieth Perkins learned Workes; ⟨p. 33⟩Page 429. the first testimony, saith Zanchey▪ and Por•ius, for him; by which God assureth us of our election, is that inward testimony of the Spirit, of which the Apostle Paul speaketh, Rom. 8. 16. The Spirit witnesseth to our spirits, that wee are the sonnes of God; And afterward comming to give some direction how a man may know, whether this testimony be true, and proceedeth from the holy Spirit, or no.
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