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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.
This truth revealed for the comfort of poor drooping Saints found great opposition; But the good Lord, stirred up your gracious spirit, to countenance, and defend ⟨image 6⟩them in the midst of strong opposition; and though you were slighted, and set light by at the end of your Government, as not worthy to be an assistant, with many other Instruments more; yet the good Lord stood by you, and strengthened you, and delivered you from the hands of your opposers, preserved you from the dangers of the Sea; and though at your return to your Native Soil, you lived like Joseph, a while, in a despised condition, yet the Lord raised you up to sit amongst Princes. So that though you were willing to lose life, friends, preferment, for Christ; found you not then, life, peace, joy, in the Lord Jesus, which was better to you, then all worldly amity; according to his own promise, In the World you found affliction, but in him you found peace: And when you were called to be a Member of the high Court of Parliament, in our distressed and distracted ⟨image 6⟩times; the Lord made you an instrument to defect the Treacherous plot of those two brethren in evil; Thomas Lord Strafford; and William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, that contrived the destruction of our fundamental Laws, ratified by the Statute of Magna Charta, by labouring to set up an Arbitrary Government, and keeping on foot a Po•ish Army, consisting of Irish Re•els, and others, to compel the faithful, and true-hearted Nobility, and loyal Commons of England, •o subject themselves to their illegal Taxations: hazarding the loss of he favours of the King, Nobility, Parents, Friends, and Allies, together with those places of Ho•our and Maintenance, the King of lemency had freely bestowed; ra••er then his Country should be ru•ed, and enthralled, by such accor•• […] ⟨image 7⟩a branch of that goodly Cedar, under whose shade, the Innocent and oppressed, tender Consciences that stand for a through Reformation, agreeable to the Word o God, find rest) ever be forgotten, and left unrewarded; God forbid: I is worthy to be written on a Pilla of Marble; and recorded in the Chronicle: that after-ages may never forget to show kindness, and mercy to your Noble Posterity that did not think your life (together with your nearest relations dear unto you, so as to part with them, that you might purchase you Countries Liberty;