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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.
We condemn only those that sin through a wilful contempt; because the evil of their half-way Reformation is discovered by them, whom God hath raised up to declare his truth in an evil day. Now, when these sorts of men shall be so far from repenting of all the evil that they have done to the servants of the Lord Jesus, in this kind, that they still persevere in persecuting ⟨p. 38⟩them for the truth they deliver, (as the Jews did of old the Lord Jesus, and their own Prophets, as it is written, 1 Thes. 2. 14. For ye, brethren, became followers of the Churches of God, which in Judea are in Christ Jesus; for ye have also suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they of the Jews: Verse 15. Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own Prophets, and have persecuted us, and they please not God, and are contrary to all men; Ver. 16. Forbidding us to preach to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, that they may fill up the measure of their own iniquity, that the wrath of God may come upon them unto the uttermost.) Upon these sorts of men, not we, but the Lord Jesus hath set this dreadful doom, This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather then light, because their deeds are evil. For every one that doth evil, hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, least his deeds should be discovered, ⟨p. 39⟩John 3. 19, 20.
Wee condemne onely those that sinne through a wilfull contempt; because the ev•ll of their halfe-way Reformation is discovered by them, whom God hath raised up to declare his truth in an evill day. Now, when these sorts of men shall bee so farre from repenting of all the evill that they have done to the servants of the Lord Jesus, in this kind, that they still persevere in persecuting ⟨p. 38⟩them for the truth they deliver, (as the Jewes did of old the Lord Jesus, and their own Prophets, as it is written,