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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.
We impose a burden upon […] ⟨p. 55⟩conscience to be practised, which God hath left arbitrary, to be used according to our necessities; If we be afflicted, then pray; if we have tasted how bountiful the Lord hath been to us in blessings, then let us praise him; Jam. 5. 13.
Wee impose a burthen upon 〈…〉 ⟨p. 55⟩conscience to be practised, which God hath left arbitrary, to be used according to our necessities; If we be afflicted, then pray; if wee have tasted how bountifull the Lord hath been to us in blessings, then let us praise him; Jam. 5. 13.
If we frequent devised forms of Worship in prayer or praise, we shall lay a stumbling block before a weak brother, and cause him to fall. Woe be to them that follow the way of Balaam, who taught Balackto cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, Revel. 2. 14. Jud. v. 11. Now offences must come, but woe unto the men by whom they come: It were better for me, that a millstone were hanged about my neck, and that I were cast into the sea, then that I should offend one of these little ones, Luk. 17. 1, 2.
If wee frequent devised formes of Worship in prayer or praise, we shall lay a stumbling block before a weak brother, and cause him to fall. Woe be to them that follow the way of Balaam, who taught Balackto cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel,