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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
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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• ⟨p. 75⟩heavenly Father never planted; Then evil counsel prevailed with the King to withdraw from his Parliament, and under the pretence of a Guard to protect his Person, to make war against his Parliament, that they should dye: But our faithful Nobles, and true hearted Commons in England reply, Shall our Jonathans dye? who have in part freed our consciences from Roman Traditions, and ancient corrupt Festivals, and covenanted with us for a pure Reformation agreeable to the word of our good God, and have preserved our estates and liberties from an Arbitrary Government; shall they dye which have wrought such a deliverance in the Land? they shall not dye: we will bleed our selves before an hair shall fall from their heads, if either we with our persons, prayers, counsels, states, or swords can prevent it. And hath the Lord ⟨p. 76⟩given such a blessing to our endeavours, that God hath made the righteous of the Land, (next to the Lord) a wall of defence to the Parliament; shall it ever therefore enter into the heart of loyal and tender-hearted Covenanters to have such hard thoughts; that the Parliament will ever consent to burden us any longer with unjust Penal Statutes, who have thought nothing too dear for them, but have jeopardized lives and livelihoods for their preservations. Especially, they being sensible what a burden such penal Laws have been to tender Consciences, and what an hinderance they are for propagating truth.
1Fifthly, When the Lord opened the eyes of our deare and thric• noble Patriots of our Countrey assembled in Parliament, to make a solemne Protestation, to oppos• all Popery and Popish innovations, and to extirpate Episcopacy root and branch, as a Plant th•