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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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Propos. 3.
To give my Sanctification for an evident cause and ground of my faith (not whereby I am justified, but) whereby I believe my self to be justified (which they call the Faith of Assurance) this may be a building my Justification on my Sanctification, or a going on in a Covenant of Works two ways:
To give my Sanctification for an evident cause and ground of my faith (not whereby I am justified, but) whereby I beleeve my selfe to be justified (which they call the Faith of Assurance) this may be a building my Iustification on my Sanctification, or a going on in a Covenant of Works two wayes:
1. If the Soul have no Evidence of his Dependence upon Christ for Righteousness, nor no Evidence of his Effectual Calling unto Christ, and unto faith in Christ (by the Fathers drawing him to come to him) but only he seeth an evident Change in himself, from a profane and civill course to a sanctified Conversation; or at least upon that which is worse, to wit, upon that which seemeth true Christian Sanctification, which indeed is not but a legal Reformation. For when a man hath bin humbled under the Spirit of Bondage by the Terrors of the Law yet he may never come to feel his need of Christ, nor his own insufficiency or unworthiness to receive him,
1. If the Soul have no Evidence of his Dependance upon Christ for Righteousnesse, nor no Evidence of his Effectuall Calling unto Christ, and unto faith in Christ (by the Fathers drawing him to come to him) but onely he seeth an evident Change in himselfe, from a prophane and civill course to a sanctified Conversation; or at least upon that which is worse, to wit, upon that which seemeth true Christian Sanctification, which indeed is not but a legall Reformation. For when a man hath bin humbled under the Spirit of Bondage by the Terrors of the Law yet he may never come to feel his need of Christ, nor his own insufficiencie or unworthinesse to receive him,