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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.
1Nay; Because there was as vast a difference, according to the distinction I formerly laid down, between ⟨p. 61⟩the Faith and Baptism of john and his Disciples before the eath of Christ, and the Faith and baptism of Paul; and •he residue of the Apostles after the death and resurrection of Christ: As now is betwixt the Jews at this day: and •s that truly believe in Jesus the Christ, 1 Joh. 5. 1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. For the Jews at this day be•eeve (as John and his Disciples then taught, That they should believe on him that should come, Acts 19. 4.) even in that Messiah whom they wait •or. And we believe (as Peter and Paul then taught) That Christ indeed is come, and crucified, dead, and risen, and exalted to be the Christ, Acts 2. 36 Ephes. 1. 20, 21, 22, 23.
1Nay; Because there was as vast a difference, according to the distin••ion I formerly layd downe, be•weene ⟨p. 61⟩the Faith and Baptisme of •ohn and his Disciples before the eath of Christ, and the Faith and •aptisme of Paul; and •he residue of the Apostles after the death and resurrection of Christ: As now is •etwixt the Jewes at this day: and s that truely beleeve in Jesus the Christ,