A71036:7
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
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.
Reverend and beloved Brethren,
For an Answer unto your (Interrogatories, shall I call them?) or Questions. Though I might without Sin refer you (as our Saviour did the High-Priest when his Doctrine was questioned) to what I have ever taught and spoken openly to the world, as having in secret said ⟨p. 2⟩nothing else, John 18.20.21. Yet because you are much more dear and precious to me, than the High-Priest was to him; and because Love thinks no Evil, and Truth feareth not the Light: I have (by the help of Christ) sent you (according to your Desire) a plain and short Answer to each particular: wherein if I err, let me see mine Error, and try if I shut mine Eyes against the Light. If in your judgement I hold forth the Truth, then bear witness with me to the Truth, for the Honour of the Name of Christ, and for the Peace and salvation of the Churches in our Lord Jesus, your Lord and ours.
FOr an Answer unto your (Interrogatories, shall I call them?) or Questions. Though I might without Sinne referre you (as our Saviour did the High-Priest when his Doctrine was questioned) to what I have ever taught and spoken openly to the world, as having in secret said ⟨p. 2⟩nothing else, Iohn 18.20.21. Yet because you are much more deare and precious to me, than the High-Priest was to him; and because Love thinkes no Evill, and Truth feareth not the Light: I have (by the helpe of Christ) sent you (according to your Desire) a plaine and short Answer to each particular: wherein if I erre, let me see mine Error, and try if I shut mine Eyes against the Light. If in your judgement I hold forth the Truth, then beare witnesse with me to the Truth, for the Honour of the Name of Christ, and for the Peace and salvation of the Churches in our Lord Jesus, your Lord and ours.