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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.
Whether a Christian be not further active after Regeneration, then before, if there be a difference, wherein it lieth?
Whether a Christian be not further active after Regeneration, then before, if there be a difference, wherein it lyeth?
Answer.
A Christian is more active after Regeneration then before, before Regeneration we are not active at all in any spiritual Christian Action, no nor in Proximam Potentiam, Passive to receive help from God to do it, but after Regeneration, Acti Agimus. If we act and go forth in the strength of our own spiritual Gifts, without looking up to Christ, we fall as Peter did, Math, 26.23.
A Christian is more active after Regeneration then before, before Regeneration we are not active at all in any spiritual Christian Action, no nor in Proximam Potentiam, Passive to receive helpe from God to do it, but after Regeneration, Acti Agimus. If wee act and go forth in the strength of our own spirituall Gifts, without looking up to Christ, we fall as Peter did, Math, 26.23.
Quest. XV.