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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.
Is borne of God. Seeing no man can say, (that is confessed) that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Spirit, 1 Cor. 12. 3.
Is borne of God. Seeing no man can say, (that is confest) that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Spirit, 1 Cor. 12. 3.
Hence I find it written, Joh. 1. 11. Jesus came to his own, but his own received him not, that is, for the Christ, that Messiah which was to come: but only for the Carpenters son; Matth. 13. 58. The reason was, because none could understand that Mystery: but they only to whom the Father of heaven revealed it, Matth. 11. 14. Hence, when Jesus demanded of his ⟨image 45⟩Disciples? Whom do men say that I the Son of Man am? Peter answereth, thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God: Jesus answereth, Blessed art thou Simon Bar-Jona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee; but my Father in heaven. And thou art Peter, and upon this Rock (Jesus the Christ, whom thou hast confessed) I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, Mat. 16. 16, 17, 18. Many for fear durst not in those days confess Jesus to be the Christ: Instance the Parents of the blind man: Because the Jews had agreed, that if any did confess, that he was the Christ; He should be put out of the Synagogue, John 9. 22. But so many as received him (viz. to be the Christ) to them he gave power to be called the sons of God; even to them that believe in his name; which were borne not of blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor of th will of man, But of God,