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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
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 Reasons are these.
First, If Jesus the Christ be not our Prophet to teach us, he will not be our King to protect us: Math. 28. 10. Teach them, saith Christ, to ⟨p. 50⟩observe, all things that I command you: And lo, I am always with you to the end of the world.
First, If Jesus the Christ bee not our Prophet to teach us, hee will not be our King to protect us: Math. 28. 10. Teach them, saith Christ, to ⟨p. 50⟩observe, all things that I command you: And loe, I am alwaies with you to the end of the world.
Secondly, If Christ be no Prophet to teach us his heavenly Fathers revealed will, he will be no Priest to intercede for us, Joh. 17. 20. I pray not for these alone, but for all them that shall believe in me through their word. Now it is not their word that they speak, but what they have received from Christ to speak. Seeing it is written2 John 9. Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God: but he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, hath both the Father and the Sonne. Verse 10. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not to house, neither bid him God speed. Verse 11. For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.