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Several questions of serious and necessary consequence, propoundedSeverall questions of serious and necessary consequence, propounded
Several questions of serious and necessary consequence, propounded by the teaching elders, unto M. John Cotton of Boston in New-England. With his respective answer to each question.Severall questions of serious and necessary consequence, propounded by the teaching elders, unto M. Iohn Cotton of Boston in New-England. With his respective answer to each question.
London: printed for Thomas Banks, 1647
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.
Quest. VI.
Whether a Christian may maintain like constant Comfort in his soul, when he hath fallen into some gross sin, or neglected some known duty, as when he walked most closely with God.
VVhether a Christian may maintaine like constant Comfort in his soule, when he hath fallen into some grosse sinne, or neglected some knowne duty, as when he walked most closely with God.
Answ.
A Christian man cannot find like constant comfort maintained ⟨p. 3⟩to his soul, after he hath fallen into sin, whether of Commission or Omission, as when God keeps him in a close walking with him: For the Spirit of God in him being grieved, (and grieved it is by any gross sin especially) it will not speak wonted Peace and Comfort to him. If David fall into such gross sins, as Adultery and Murder, it cannot be, but the bones of his comfort will be broken, Psal. 15.8. Nevertheless, the assurance of a mans good Estate may be maintained to him, when the frame and course of his spirit is grown much degenerate,