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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.
So that, if the Jewish Faith be not a saving Faith at this day; Seeing they look for a Messiah to come: when indeed he is already come, and crucified, dead, risen and ascended ⟨p. 62⟩to glory; So that we wait now for a Saviour from heaven, Jesus that shall deliver us from the wrath t• come, 1 Thess. 1. 10. Neither coul• the Faith of those twelve Disciples Paul found at Ephesus be a saving Faith in the time of his Ministry because Christ was come (though they were ignorant of it, being a that time in Asia) and had finished all those things that were written of him in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms, Luke 24. 44. But as neither the twelve Disciples of Christ could not understand that all things were fulfilled of him: until he had opened their understandings, that they might understand the Scriptures: And then they rightly understood the end of his suffering, death, and resurrection: namely, That repentance, and remission of sins, should be preached in his name among all Nations, beginning at Jerusalem, Luke 24. 45, 46, 47, &c. ⟨p. 63⟩So neither could these twelve Paul found at Ephesus know it; because, they had not heard, whether there were any holy Spirit, yea, or nay; and so were ignorant of the death, and resurrection of Christ, until the Lord was pleased by his good Spirit to open their understanding, by the ministry of Paul; therefore it is written, When they heard it, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, Act. 19. 5.
So that, if the Jewish Faith be not a saving Faith at this day; Seeing they looke for a Messiah to come: when indeed hee is already come, and crucified, dead, risen and ascended ⟨p. 62⟩