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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.
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2 And that holdeth the Gospel Faith: namely, that they believe in a crucified, dead, and risen Jesus (through whom they obtain remission of sins) whom God hath exalted to be Lord, and Christ, viz. eternal King▪ Priest▪ and Prophet, and head of the body of his Church, Ephe. 1. 22, 23. which must be preached among all Nations; beginning at Jerusalem, Luke 24. 46, 47, 48. And ⟨p. 34⟩constituted according to the Commission given to the Apostles, Math. 28. 19, 20. which is left as a rule for the gathering of all Churches, to the ends of the World; seeing the Word of Christ is eternal. The word of the Lord endureth for ever; and this is the Word, which by the Gospel is preache• unto you, 1 Pet. 1. 25. Yea, and after their apostasy, under the spiritual Babylonish captivity, to reform any error crept into the Churches of the old and new Testament: It was their holy custom, to reduce all things to their first Institution: Quod primum verum, that which was first is true, according to ertullians judgement. For instance, so […] David in the miscarriage of the Ark of God, 1 Chro. 15. 2. 12. 13. And it was zealous Josiahs rule (whom the Spirit of God so commendeth in Scripture, that none was like before him for his Reformation) 2 Chro 34 31. The like example took Nehemiah after ⟨p. 35⟩his return from the Babylonish Captivity, Neh. 10. 29. To observe all the Commandments of the Lord, and the Statutes which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them to keep. So in reforming of the particular Churches of the New Testament, whereof Jesus the Christ is head, King, and Prophet (if ever they be rightly brought out of their Spiritual Babylonish captivity under Antichrist) we must reform all the Innovations, as the Lord Jesus himself reformed the long-spread error of Bigamy and Polygamy. Non fuit sic ab initio, From the beginning it was not so,