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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.
Therefore the receiving of Christ is by an act of Faith.
1The place in John, upon which the weight of this Argument lieth, saith no more, but that they which received Christ in the second Aorist ⟨p. 43⟩in the time past, do believe on his name in the time present. Which we willingly grant; that they who receive Christ, their faith becometh active through him to believe in his name, that so they might receive him, and his righteousness.
1The place in Iohn, upon which the weight of this Argument lieth, saith no more, but that they which received Christ in the second Aorist ⟨p. 43⟩in the time past, doe beleeve on his name in the time present. Which we willingly grant; that they who receive Christ, their faith becommeth active through him to beleeve in his name, that so they might receive him, and his righteousnesse.
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1We are justified by Faith, Rom. 3. 28.
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