A34674:439
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.
Argum: 2 Taken by proportion from Gal. 2.2.
If in times of Controversy, about weighty matters of Religion, the Assembling together of Apostles (who knew the truth before they came on to the Synod, and one of them was greater ⟨p. 52⟩than all particular Churches) was needful for the testifying to the carrying on of the truth (which is less than the finding out, testifying to, carrying on of the truth) if warranted out of the Scripture; then the Assembling together of Churches by themselves, or by Church-messengers (either of wch is a Synod) to the finding our, testifying to, and better carrying on of the truth, is warrantable out of the Scriptures.
If in times of Controversie, about weighty matters of Religion, the Assembling together of Apostles (who knew the truth before they came on to the Synod, and one of them was greater ⟨p. 52⟩than all particular Churches) was needfull for the testifying to the carrying on of the truth (which is lesse than the finding out, testifying to, carrying on of the truth) if warranted out of the Scripture; then the Assembling together of Churches by themselves, or by Church-messengers (either of wch is a Synod) to the finding our, testifying to, and better carrying on of the truth, is warrantable out of the Scriptures.
But in such times of controversy, the Assembling together of Apostles (one of whom was greater than all particular Churches) for the testifying to, and better carrying on of the truth, is warranted out of the Scripture,