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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.
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.
Faith may be said to be passive in our justification, because it doth not lay hold on Christ, to fetch Justification from him, till Christ have first laid hold on us, and imputed his righteousness to us; and declared it unto us by his Spirit, in a free promise of Grace: And then Faith becometh active, actually to receive Christs righteousness; and actually to believe on it, either by way of dependence, or assurance.
Faith may be said to bee passive in our justification, because it doth not lay hold on Christ, to fetch Justification from him, till Christ have first laid hold on us, and imputed his righteousnesse to us; and declared it unto us by his Spirit, in a free promise of Grace: And then Faith becommeth active, actually to receive Christs righteousnesse; and actually to beleeve on it, either by way of dependance, or assurance.