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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.
1First, In respect of the different dispensations. The Faith and Baptism that these twelve had received from John, or his Disciples Ministry, though it was a saving Faith all the days of John and his Disciples Ministry, yet it was not a saving Faith after the death, and resurrection, and ascension of Christ into glory, in the time of Pauls Ministry: For John and his Disciples preached the Baptism of Repentance; saying, that they should believe on ⟨p. 58⟩him that was to come after him▪ that was in Jesus Christ, that was to be crucified. But Paul and Timothy preached, that Jesus indeed is come, and crucified, dead, and risen, through whom all that believe shall have remission of sins, Acts 13. 38, 39. 1 Cor. 15. 3, 4.
1First, In respect of the different dispensations. The Faith and Baptisme that these twelve had received from Iohn, or his Disciples Ministerie, though it was a saving Faith all the dayes of Iohn and his Disciples Ministry, yet it was not a saving Faith after the death, and resurrection, and ascention of Christ into glory, in the time of Pauls Ministery: For Iohn and his Disciples preached the Baptisme of Repentance; saying, that they should beleeve on ⟨p. 58⟩him that was to come after him▪ that was in Jesus Christ, that was to bee crucified. But Paul and Timetheus preached, that Jesus indeed is come, and crucified, dead, and risen, through whom all that beleeve shall have remission of sinnes, Acts 13. 38, 39. 1 Cor. 15. 3, 4.
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