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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.
But we cannot Justify God before he justice us; no more then we can love him before he first loved us, 1 Joh. 4. 19.
But we cannot Justifie God before he justi•e us; no more then we can love him before hee first loved us, 1 Ioh. 4. 19.
1If our Faith be first active to lay hold on Christ for his righteousness, ⟨p. 42⟩before God impute his righteousness unto us: Then we are righteous men to act, and work out our own righteousness, before we be righteous, by the imputed righteousness of Christ.
1If our Faith be first active to lay hold on Christ for his righteousnes, ⟨p. 42⟩before God impute his righteousnes unto us: Then wee are righteous men to act, and worke out our own righteousnesse, before we be righteous, by the imputed righteousnes of Christ.
- 1Reas. 4.
But we be to our best acts and works of righteousness, unrighteous, till our sins be pardoned, which is not until the righteousness of Christ be imputed to us.