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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.
By reasons drawn not from our ⟨p. 34⟩work, or from any worthiness in us; but from the alone goodness of God the Father, and the grace of Christ freely bestowed, and in this manner the Devil will never persuade any man.
By reasons drawne not from our ⟨p. 34⟩worke, or from any worthinesse in us; but from the alone goodnesse of God the Father, and the grace of Christ freely bestowed, and in this manner the Devill will never perswade any man.
The persuasion of the holy Spirit is full of power; for they which are persuaded that they are the sons of God, cannot, but must needs call him Father, and in regard of love to him do hate sin; and on the contrary, they have a sound hearty desire to do his Word and Will revealed.
The perswasion of the holy Spirit is full of power; for they which are perswaded that they are the sons of God, cannot, but must needs call him Father, and in regard of love to him do hate sinne; and on the contrary, they have a sound hearty desire to do his Word and Will revealed.
1For the second Answer to the imputation of Novelty; Either (saith John Cotton) I am exceedingly deceived, or it justly falleth upon the contrary Doctrine, and they are much mistaken that think otherwise; I never read it to my best remembrance, in any Author old o• new: that ever a man received his first evidence of the faith of his Justification, from his Sanctification unless it be one, (whom I met with