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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.
1Yea. First, Because there was never a more exact Covenant taken in no Realm, or Nation, since the days of zealous Josiah, 2 Chron. 34. 31. and Nehemiah, Nehem. 10. 29. than is in these our days, to see a through Reformation in England and Ireland, according to the word ⟨p. 81⟩of God; and to extirpate Popery, Prelacy, Superstition, Schism, Heresy, in Doctrine, Worship, and Discipline; that the Lord should be one, and his Name one, in the three Kingdoms. So that we are •ot to leave so much as an hoof behind us of any Superstition, or Romish relic, or any humane Tradition, in Gods worship, to be •etained; though it have remained under the venerable garb of Antiquity, Universality, and Unity, •he three great pillars of the Roman Hierarchy.
1Yea. First, Because there was never a more exact Covenant taken in no Realme, or Nation, since the dayes of zealous Josiah, 2 Chron. 34. 31. and Nehemiah, Nehem. 10. 29. than is in these our dayes, to see a through Reformation in England and Ireland, according to the word ⟨p. 81⟩of God; and to extirpate Popery, Prelacy, Superstition, Schisme, He•esie, in Doctrine, Worship, and Discipline; that the Lord should be one, and his Name one, in the •hree Kingdomes. So that we are •ot to leave so much as an hoofe behind us of any Superstition, or Romish relique, or any humane Tradition, in Gods worship, to be •etained; though it have remained nder the venerable garbe of Aniquity, Universality, and Unity, he three great pillars of the Roman Hierarchy.