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The Covenant of Grace
The covenant of grace discovering the great work of a sinners reconciliation to God / by John Cotton ... ; whereunto are added Certain queries tending to accommodation [sic] between the Presbyterian and Congregational churches ; also a discussion of the civill magistrates power in matters of religion ; by the same author.The covenant of grace discovering the great work of a sinners reconciliation to God / by John Cotton ... ; whereunto are added Certain queries tending to accommodadation [sic] between the Presbyterian and Congregationall churches ; also a discussion of the civill magistrates power in matters of religion ; by the same author.
London: printed by M.S. for Francis Eglesfield and John Allen, 1655
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
I speak it that it may be searched, and (God is my witness) not to unsettle the well-grounded comfort of any soul; but if any have built upon an unsafe ground, or have built Hay or stubble, better it is to know it at first, whilst there is hope in Israel, than when it is too late.
I speak it that it may be searched, and (God is my witnesse) not to unsettle the well-grounded comfort of any soule; but if any have built upon an unsafe ground, or have built Hay or stubble, better it is to know it at first, whilst there is hope in Israel, than when it is too late.
In those three things formerly mentioned, are all the differences between the sanctification of Hypocrites, and of the Children of God, and they go so close together, that you will say it is an easy matter to discern justification by sanctification.
In those three things formerly mentioned, are all the differences between the sanctification of Hypocrites, and of the Children of God, and they goe so close together, that you will say it is an easie matter to discerne justification by sanctification.
1 For the Root of it, the soul having fellowship with Christ, the Holy Ghost cometh into the soul, & worketh Faith in Jesus Christ, and this is the root of all Christian sanctification, Ezek. 36.27. and for Faith, it is that which purifieth the heart, Acts 15.9. & without faith it is impossible to please God, Heb. 11.6. So that Faith must concur unto the rootedness of our sanctification in Christ: And the Apostle doth attribute both these Roots unto both sorts: Unto those Christians that shall afterwards fall away to sin the sin against the Holy Ghost,