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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.
In a Book of choice English Sermons, that goeth under the name of Doctor Sybbs, and our Brother Hooker, and master Davenport, there one styled the Witness of Salvation, on Rom. 8. 15. 16. where in Page 135. are these words: In Justification, Faith is a sufferer only; But in Sanctification, it worketh, and purgeth the whole man.
In a Booke of choice English Sermons, that goeth under the name of Doctor Sybbs, and our Brother Hooker, and master Davenport, there one stiled the Witnesse of Salvation, on Rom. 8. 15. 16. where in Page 135. are these words: In Justification, Faith is a sufferer onely; But in Sanctification, it worketh, and purgeth the whole man.
As for our Learned men that do generally make Faith an instrumental cause of their Justification. I confess it is true; But I do not understand them (as Chenerius doth in the like case) to ⟨p. 48⟩mean no other kind of causa; then Cause sine qua non, or, Causa removens, or prohibens. For Faith keepeth the Soul empty of confidence in it self, and maketh a way for the receiving of the righteousness of Christ. Even as the poor▪ Widows empty vessels made a way for the receiving the oil out of the Cruse; whereas the fullness of the Vessel caused the stay.
As for our Learned men that doe generally make Faith an instrumentall cause of their Justifica•ion. I confesse it is true; But I doe not understand them (as Chenerius doth in the like case) to ⟨p. 48⟩meane no other kinde of causa; then Cause sine qua non, or, Causa removens, or prohibens. For Faith keepeth the Soule empty of confidence in it selfe, and maketh a way for the receiving of the righteousnesse of Christ. Even as the poore Widdowes empty vessells made a way for the receiving the oye out of the Cruse; whereas the fulnesse of the Vessell caused the stay.