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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.
1Because, If two Disciples of Christ agree together in earth, touching any thing that they shall ask, they have promise it shall be done for them of his Father in heaven, Mat. 18. 19. But there is no promise to any people in faith and order, but a people agreed: Reas. 1. Because two cannot walk together unless they be agreed, Amos 3. 3. neither can the heart of two believers truly consent to pray together, unless they be agreed touching the things they will ask of the Father of glory. Reas. 2. Difference of opinion causeth difference of affection, and is an occasion of many dear and precious souls to withdraw communion; as is to be seen in Barnabas and Paul, dissenting about the choice of a companion, the contention grew so hot, that they separated the one from the other,2 Acts 15. 37, 38, 39, 40.
1Because, If two Disciples of Christ agree together in earth, touching any thing that they shall ask, they have promise it shall bee done for them of his Father in heaven, Mat. 18. 19. But there is no promise to any people in faith and order, but a people agreed: Reas. 1. Because two cannot walk together unlesse they be agreed, Amos 3. 3. neither can the heart of two beleevers truly consent to pray together, unlesse they bee agreed touching the things they will ask of the Father of glory. Reas. 2. Difference of opinion causeth difference of affection, and is an occasion of many deare and precious soules to withdraw communion; as is to be seen in Barnabas and Paul, dissenting about the choyce of a companion, the contention grew so hot, that they separated the one from the other,2