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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.
TO THE HONOURABLE, and the true lover of all conscientious Covenanters, that stand up for a through Reformation, according to the word of our good God, in England, and Ireland, CORNELIUS HOLLAND Esquire, a Member of the House of Commons Assembled in Parliament.
TO THE HONOVRABLE, and the true lover of all conscientious Covenantours, that stand up for a through Reformation, according to the word of our good God, in England, and Ireland, CORNELIUS HOLLAND Esquire, a Member of the House of Commons Assembled in Parliament.
SIR,
David describeth the godly man, by his pleasure, and by his pains: First, the pleasure of the godly man, in these words:1 He delighteth in the Law of the Lord. Secondly, the pains of the godly man: And in that Law he meditateth day and night; not only in the day appointed for man to labour in, but in the night also appointed for man to rest: the reason is, because it is his meat and drink, to do the will of his God. (Honoured Sir) The Word of Christ being the Rule ⟨image 44⟩of Englands Reformation; the good Lord (that writeth his Laws in his peoples hearts, according to his new Covenant of Grace: Heb. 8. 10.) put it into my mind, seriously to consider, What Schism was, that I had covenanted against. And searching the Scriptures, I found it thus written,