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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.
1A passive Faith is rarely hard of out of my mouth, but yet the thing meant by it, is never rare in the writings of the learned, nor sometimes the word passive Faith.
- 1Answ.
Two things are meant by the word of Faith, and may be said to be passive in our Justification, in a double respect.
Because a habit of Faith may be ⟨p. 45⟩called passive, before it putteth forth any act, and we are justified as soon as by an habit of faith we are alive in Christ; in the first moment of our conversion, before Faith hath put forth any act: as we were all guilty of Adams sin, before we were active to reach forth any consent unto it.
Because a habite of Faith may be ⟨p. 45⟩called passive, before it putteth forth any act, and we are justified assoone as by an habit of faith we are alive in Christ; in the first moment of our conversion, before Faith hath put forth any act: as we were all guilty of Adams sinne, before we were active to reach forth any consent unto it.