A84399:80
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 answers to each question. Printed according to order.Sixteene questions of seriovs and necessary consequence, propounded unto Mr. John Cotton of Boston in New=England, together with his answers to each question. Printed according to order.
London: printed by E. P. for Edward Blackmore, 1644
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Whether evidencing Justification by Sanctification, be a building my Justification on my Sanctification: or a going on in a Covenant of Works.
Whether evidencing Iustification by Sanctification, be a building my Iustification on my Sanctification: or a going on in a Covenant of Workes.
Answer.
To evidence my Justification by my Sanctification, though it may seem at first blush a plain and evident Phrase, yet is it indeed ambiguous, or at least obscure: Give me leave to clear the sense of it, and then give you mine answer. To evidence my Justification by my Sanctification, is no more at first hand than to give or hold forth my Sanctification for an evident Argument of my Justification: Thus far the Phrase is plain. But now when I give it for an evident Argument, I may give it either for an evident cause or ground of my Justification, or for an evident Sign or Effect of it. Again, when I give it for an evident sign of Justification I may either give it alone for an evident sign (having nothing else to show for my Justification) or I may give it for a concurrent Sign, together with other Signs and Witnesses, which may make both my Justification and my Sanctification evident and clear to my self and others. Having thus cleared the ambiguity and obscurity of the Phrase, I give you mine Answer distinctly in these several Propositions.
To evidence my Justification by my Sanctification, though it may seem at first blush a plain and evident Phrase, yet is it indeed ambiguous, or at least obscure: Give me leave to cleare the sense of it, and then give you mine answer. To evidence my Iustification by my Sanctification, is no more at first hand than to give or hold forth my Sanctification for an evident Argument of my Instification: Thus farre the Phrase is plain. But now when I give it for an evident Argument, I may give it either for an evident cause or ground of my Iustification, or for an evident Sign or Effect of it. Again, when I give it for an evident sign of Iustification I may either give it alone for an evident sign (having nothing else to shew for my Iustification) or I may give it for a concurrent Sign, together with other Signs and Witnesses, which may make both my Iustification and my Sanctification evident and cleere to my selfe and others. Having thus cleered the ambiguity and obscurity of the Phrase, I give you mine Answer distinctly in these severall Propositions.