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Sixteen questions of serious and necessary consequence, propounded unto Mr. John Cotton of Boston…Sixteene questions of seriovs and necessary consequence, propounded unto Mr. John Cotton of Boston…
Sixteen questions of serious and necessary consequence, propounded unto Mr. John Cotton of Boston in New England together with his answer to each question.Sixteene questions of seriovs and necessary consequence, propounded unto Mr. John Cotton of Boston in New England together with his answer to each question.
London: printed by E. P. for Edward Blackmore, 1644
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Quest. 3.
What Ground from the Word of that Distinction, a Broad Seal, and the other Seal, and the differences between them.
What Ground from the Word of that Distinction, a Broad Seale, and the other Seale, and the differences betweene them.
Answer.
I know no such Distinction between the Broad Seal and the other Seal: Nor was that Distinction propounded by any of our Members, but by one of your selves, who expressing his Conception in that Speech, one of our Members answered him according to his meaning in his own word, if you call it so, saith he; Nevertheless thus much may truly be said: There is a difference between the Witness of the Spirit, as it regenerateth and reneweth our Spirits; and the Witness of the Spirit as it comforteth us with evident Assurance of our Adoption, Rom. 8.16.
I know no such Distinction betweene the Broad Seale and the other Seale: Nor was that Distinction propounded by any of our Members, but by one of your selves, who expressing his Conception in that Speech, one of our Members answered him according to his meaning in his own word, if you call it so, saith he; Neverthelesse thus much may truely be said: There is a difference betweene the Witnesse of the Spirit, as it regenerateth and reneweth our Spirits; and the Witnesse of the Spirit as it comforteth us with evident Assurance of our Adoption,