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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.
The Treatise of the New Covenant having been taken from ⟨image 8⟩the Authors mouth in Preaching, was afterward presented unto him with desire of his perusal and emendation of it; which being done (and indeed the interlinings of his own hand do plainly testify his correcting of it) he delivered back, not long before his death, into the hands of a Gentleman, (one of the Church in Boston there) who coming over hither, and being about to return, left it with me to take order for the Printing of it.
The Treatise of the New Covenant having been taken from ⟨image 8⟩the Authors mouth in Preaching, was afterward presented unto him with desire of his perusal and emendation of it; which being done (and indeed the interlinings of his owne hand doe plainly testifie his correcting of it) he delivered back, not long before his death, into the hands of a Gentleman, (one of the Church in Boston there) who coming over hither, and being about to return, left it with me to take order for the Printing of it.
That of the Queries I had from the Reverend Author himself (my most Honoured friend) in a letter from him, with liberty (if it might be thought meet) of publishing of it: At my coming over from that Country (which was about a year before his death) he delivered unto me the same for substance, but in another Form, viz. in 12 Propositions, and ⟨image 8⟩therefore did then express his unwillingness to yield to the impression of them (being moved thereunto by a Reverend Elder then present with us) by reason (as he said) they were set down by way of Propositions; but afterward the Lord having directed him to mould them in to another model (turning the twelve Propositions into eleven Queries) he was pleased to send them over unto me as here they are presented. He was a man of peace, of a very sweet spirit, and had a special faculty of composing differences in the judgements of Brethren: and thus much I shall crave liberty to testify of him, that, besides the multiplicity of occasions which was constantly upon him, he was not without care about the Peace and welfare of the Churches abroad; and notwithstanding his so vast a distance