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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.
1Was there any necessity that they should be Re-baptized; would not a more perfect instruction have served?
- 1Object. 2.
1Nay: Because those twelve were departed into Asia, after they had received the Faith and Baptism of John, and were ignorant whether there were any holy Spirit yea or nay, Acts 19. 2. Because Johns Faith and Baptism (as I have formerly showed) had no promise of giving the gifts of the holy Spirit, Mat. 3. ⟨p. 64⟩11. If they therefore should continue in the Faith and Baptism they had received from John, they had no promise that waiting they should receive the gift of the holy Spirit. But to the Faith and Baptism that Peter and the residue of the Apostles preached, there was a promise of giving the gifts of the holy Spirit, Acts 2. 38. And when these twelve which had been baptized by John, or his Disciples, heard it, they submitted them selves, and were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus; (viz. into that profession of Faith Paul preached, 1 Cor. 15. 3, 4.) And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the holy Spirit came upon them, and they spake with new tongues, and prophesied; and the men were about twelve, Acts 19. 5, 6. Such an instance likewise we have in Samaria; Philip preaching the things concerning the Kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus