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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.
Twelve Reasons laid down against prescribed and stinted Forms of Prayers or Praises.
Twelve Reasons laid down against prescribed and stinted Formes of Prayers or Prayses.
1Because it is against Gods glory, in stinting unto him such a daily measure of Service (consisting of Prayer or Praise) and so hindering the spiritual petitions and phrases, that otherwise would be, if Gods good gifts were used.
1BEcause it is against Gods glory, in stinting unto him such a daily measure of Service (consisting of Prayer or Praise) and so hindering the spirituall petitions and phrases, that otherwise would be, if Gods good gifts were used.
- 1Reas. 1.
It is against the dignity of Christ, which hath qualified his Saints with a proportionable measure of the gifts of the Spirit, for Prayer or Praise, 1 Cor. 14. 15, 16. in making their gifts needless and useless, when they can serve themselves with Books, and Forms, without them.
It is against the dignity of Christ, which hath qualified his Saints with a proportionable measure of the gifts of the Spirit, for Prayer or Praise, 1 Cor. 14. 15, 16