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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.
Answ.
If my justification lieth prostrate, that is, altogether dark and hidden from me, I cannot prove my self in a state of Grace by my sanctification: For whilst I cannot believe that my person is accepted in justification, I cannot believe that my works are accepted of God, as any true sanctification.
If my justification lyeth prostrate, that is, altogether dark and hidden from me, I cannot prove my self in a state of Grace by my sanctification: For whilst I cannot beleeve that my person is accepted in justification, I cannot beleeve that my works are accepted of God, as any true sanctification.
Quest. XIII.
Whether evidencing justification by sanctification, be a building my justification on my sanctification: or a going on in a Covenant of Works.
VVhether evidencing justification by sanctification, be a building my justification on my sanctification: or a going on in a Covenant of Works.