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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.
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.
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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.
But we be to our best acts and workes of righteousnesse, unrighteous, till our sinnes bee pardoned, which is not untill the righteousnesse of Christ be imputed to us.
1In the order of nature, the object is before the act that is conversant about it: Therefore it is in the order of nature, before the act of our Faith.
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