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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.
1It is taken generally amongst the Learned, for a singular opinion of Master Wotton, that To credere, the act of believing should be imputed for righteousness.
1It is taken generally amongst the Learned, for a singular opinion of Master Wotton, that To credere, the act of beleeving should be imputed for rigteousnesse.
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For, indeed, the act of believing is neither a righteousness according unto the Law; For the Law is perfect, Psal. 19. 7. Nor a righteousness according unto the Gospel; For the act of believing is an act ⟨p. 44⟩of our own, though given of grace: But the righteousness of the Gospel is not an act of our own And therefore Paul desireth that he may be found in Christ, not having his own righteousness which is of the Law, but that which is through the Faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith,