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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
A DESCRIPTION Of the Spiritual TEMPLE.A DESCRIPTION Of the Spirituall TEMPLE.
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.
The third sort are all those that build their house upon another mans ⟨p. 27⟩faith, and not basing or laying the foundation aright, on the Gospel faith; to wit, to believe in a crucified, dead, and risen Jesus, whom God hath exalted to be the Christ: If they err in the object of their faith, Jesus the Christ, though they own him to be Jesus their eternal Priest, to make intercession to God for them; yet if they deny him their eternal King and Prophet, in all his outward institutions, in admitting of members into his spiritual Kingdom, they build but on a sandy foundation, and not on the sure rock Jesus the Christ.
The third sort are all those that build their house upon another mans ⟨p. 27⟩faith, and not basing or laying the foundation aright, on the Gospel faith; to wit, to beleeve in a crucified, dead, and risen Jesus, whom God hath exalted to be the Christ: If they erre in the object of their faith, Jesus the Christ, though they owne him to be Jesus their eternall Priest, to make intercession to God for them; yet if they deny him their eternall King and Prophet, in all his outward institutions, in admitting of members into his spirituall Kingdome, they build but on a sandy foundation, and not on the sure rock Jesus the Christ.
These Congregations, when the storm of Gods indignation bloweth upon them, it will fail them▪ because they were so foolish as to build upon the sand, Mat. 7. 26. and not upon the immovable rock Jesus the Christ; seeing other foundations no man can lay, save that is laid, Jesus the Christ, 1 Cor. 3. 11. Paul calleth him, The corner stone,