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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.
Secondly, This loyal Spouse her love toward her husband the Lord Jesus the Christ, is tender and compassionate love; she cannot endure to hear her husband should be spoiled of any of his royal dignities, either his Kingly or Prophetical, as well as Priestly Offices: She cannot with harlot Rome be content with a divided Christ; but with the true mother she must join only with them that will have a whole Christ, or no Christ. Christ her King, and his Commission to be eternal, Mat. 28. 18, 19, 20. Christ her Prophet, whose voice she must only hear; as the Father of glory hath given her in charge to do, Mat. 17. 5. Yea, and the extent how far, in all things, whatsoever he shall say; Act. 3. 22. Knowing, the danger followeth, ⟨p. 30⟩her soul shall be cut off from his people, Act. 3. 23. reckoned no sheep of his fold, Joh. 10. no Spouse of her royal husband, Ephes. 5. 24. as well as her eternal Priest, to make intercession for her, Heb 7. 25. because she knoweth, Christ divided, becometh no Christ to the divider: And this, according to the Vulgar Latin, is solver Jesum, to dissolve Jesus, to receive him only in part, and not in the whole; which is the spirit of Antichrist, &c.
Secondly, This loyall Spouse her love toward her husband the Lord Jesus the Christ, is tender and compassionate love; shee cannot endure to heare her husband should bee spoyled of any of his royall dignities, either his Kingly or Propheticall, as well as Priestly Offices: Shee cannot with harlot Rome bee content with a divided Christ; but with the true mother shee must joyn onely with them that will have a whole Christ, or no Christ. Christ her King, and his Commission to bee eternall, Mat. 28. 18, 19, 20. Christ her Prophet, whose voyce shee must onely heare; as the Father of glory hath given her in charge to doe,