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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.
Our Reasons are.
1If it be the spirit of Grace she• abroad in our hearts, that doth be• ⟨p. 39⟩get Faith in us: then if we were Passive in receiving Faith, we are much more passive in receiving Christ, or the Spirit of Christ, that begetteth Faith: for if we have no life to be Active until Faith come; we have much less life to be Active before the Cause, and root of Faith come.
1If it be the spirit of Grace she• abroad in our hearts, that doth be• ⟨p. 39⟩get Faith in us: then if wee were Passive in receiving Faith, wee are much more passive in receiving Christ, or the Spirit of Christ, that begetteth Faith: for if we have no life to be Active untill Faith come; we have much lesse life to be Active before the Cause, and root of Faith come.
- 1Reas. 1.
But it is the spirit of Grace, shed abroad in our hearts, that begetteth Faith in us, Zech. 12. 10.