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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.
1Sixthly, All the faithful in the Parliament know but in part; and the more they taste of the honey of Gods eternal truth, the more their eyes are enlightened to see, they have not as yet attained to a full ⟨p. 77⟩Reformation. And if now they should build but upon the least hay and stubble, they should not only suffer loss; but lay a foundation of a new rent in the Ages and generations to come: yea, and look what unjust Penal Statutes they impose now; may perhaps fall as heavy upon their Posterity, as sometime did upon that famous Lord Cobham, that gave his consent to the Statute of Lolordi, and afterward was put to death for a Lolord.
1Sixtly, All the faithfull in the Parliament know but in part; and the more they tast of the honey of Gods eternall truth, the more their eyes are enlightened to see, they have not as yet attained to a full ⟨p. 77⟩Reformation. And if now they should build but upon the least hay and stubble, they should not onely suffer losse; but lay a foundation of a new rent in the Ages and generations to come: yea, and looke what unjust Penall Statutes they impose now; may perhaps fall as heavy upon their Posterity, as sometime did upon that famous Lord Cobham, that gave his consent to the Statute of Lolordi, and afterward was put to death for a Lolord.
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1Seventhly, The Lord hath added such a blessing to the pious endeavours of the Parliament, that they have discovered many things to be truth; that the Learned Prelates in former times adjudged to be Heresies: As the parity of the Ministry. Superstitious forms of devised Worship, called Divine. Superstitious Festivals, formerly esteemed holy Feasts, now taken away, that men may follow their honest