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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.
1Secondly, Because there are in •he Synod some learned, pious, ten•er, conscientious men, that in the •ayes of the cruel and ambitious Prelates (like the Priest and Levites, […] the days of idolatrous Jeroboam, that served the Devils and the Calves he made, 2 Chron. 11. 13, 14, •5.) left all their maintenance, and went and lived in a strange land, ⟨p. 72⟩to enjoy the liberties of a good conscience, and worship the Lord Jesus according to the light they had received; that are at this day truly sensible, what a burden th• Penal Statutes have been in ou• Land, in former times, to tende• consciences, that desire (without any sinister ends) to see a Reformation according to Gods word▪ therefore will never consent t• have such a Penal Law enacted (as the Prelates of England once obtained by fraud and policy, in the days of Richard the Second to kill the English Subjects, that would declare the whole truth o• God, so far as it was revealed to them, and keep a good conscience toward God and man: which occasioned the death of some of th• Nobility, Gentry, and Ministry in the Nation; with many other of inferior rank.
1Secondly, Because there are in •he Synod some learned, pious, ten•er, conscientious men, that in the •ayes of the cruell and ambitious Prelates (like the Priest and Levites, 〈…〉 the dayes of idolatrous Jerobom, that served the Devils and the Calves hee made,