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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.
Lastly, The Christian Church, Christs loyal Spouse, knoweth that her royal husband is jealous of his glory, and will not endure his Worship should be corrupted with the inventions of man; therefore she deserteth the communion of all such as have forsaken Christ, the fountain of living waters, and dig to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that will hold no water. Hence it is as possible for light and darkness to agree in one subject, and the ⟨p. 31⟩Temple of God, and Idols: as the Church that hath Christ for her head, and the Word to be the rule of her Doctrine, and Government. And those Congregations that are governed, partly by the Word of Christ, and partly by their own T. additions, should have communion together.
Lastly, The Christian Church, Christs loyall Spouse, knoweth that her royall husband is jealous of his glory, and will not endure his Worship should be corrupted with the inventions of man; therefore shee deserteth the communion of all such as have forsaken Christ, the fountaine of living waters, and dig to themselves cisternes, broken cisternes, that will hold no water. Hence it is as possible for light and darknesse to agree in one subject, and the ⟨p. 31⟩Temple of God, and I•ols: as the Church that hath Christ for her head, and the Word to bee the rule of her Doctrine, and Government. And those Congregations that are governed, partly by the Word of Christ, and partly by their owne T. aditions, should have communion together.