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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 all the Churches of Jesus the Christ, coming out of Mystical Babylon, gathered, or scattered, that follow the Lamb, the Lord JESUS wheresoever he goeth.
To all the Churches of Iesus the Christ, coming out of Mysticall Babylon, gathered, or scattered, that follow the Lambe, the Lord JESUS wheresoever he goeth.
Beloved in CHRIST, Disdain not to Read this Learned Treatise of Master John Cotton, of Boston in New-England, out of any prejudice thou mayest take against the person, or publisher of it. What if some judge him a Schismatic? yet he regardeth not mans rash censure: Seeing he can with holy Paul, that before his Conversion persecuted the Church of God, safely Apologise for himself; Acts 24. 14. That after the way that you call Heresy, so ⟨image 11⟩worship I the God of my Fathers; believing all things that are written in the Law, and in the Prophets. Verse 15. And have an hope toward God, which you your selves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just, and unjust. Verse 16. And herein do I exercise my self, to have always a Conscience void of offence toward God & toward man. But yet this I confess unto you, that I am less then the least of all the Messengers of Christ; for I am not worthy to be called a Messenger, or Minister; for I persecuted the Church of God, that professed the Faith of Jesus the Christ; that held forth all his Royal Offices, King, Prophet, Priest, according to his outward administration, in admitting of Members into his Spiritual Kingdom: And sided with the Antichristian Prelates, and Bishops, that denied, that Jesus is the Christ, whom the Spirit of God calleth Liars, and Antichristians, That denieth the Father ⟨image 11⟩and the Son, 1 John 2. 22. For though I, with the Antichristian Bishops, and Priests, did acknowledge Jesus the Christ, our high Priest that ever liveth to reconcile us unto God; yet we have persecuted them that hold his Kingly and Prophetical Office to be eternal, aswell as his Priesthood, and the gathering of his Church according to his Royal Commission,