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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.
Fourthly, It is obvious to every well-affected Subject in the English Nation, that when our Brethren that noble, ancient, warlike Nation the Scots, contended for a Reformation according to the light they ha• received, and casting off Rome proud Papal and Prelatical Government, with all their devise• forms of Worship, they must hav• dyed; the English Prelates had s• far incensed his Majesty against them, and raised large sums o• money toward the levying of a• Army, to kill and destroy them had not the Lord by his special• providence prevented it.
Fourthly, It is obvious to every well-affected Subject in the English Nation, that when our Brethren that noble, ancient, warlike Nation the Scots, contended for a Reformation according to the light they ha• received, and casting off Rome proud Papall and Prelaticall Government, with all their devise• formes of Worship, they must hav• dyed; the English Prelates had s• farre incensed his Majesty against them, and raised large summes o• money toward the levying of a• Army, to kill and destroy them had not the Lord by his special• providence prevented it.
1Fifthly, When the Lord opened the eyes of our dear and thrice noble Patriots of our Country assembled in Parliament, to make a solemn Protestation, to oppose all Popery and Popish innovations, and to extirpate Episcopacy root and branch, as a Plant th