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A treatise I. Of faith. II. Twelve fundamental articles of Christian religion. III. A…
A treatise I. Of faith. II. Twelve fundamental articles of Christian religion. III. A doctrinal conclusion. IV. Questions and answers upon church-government. Taken from written copies long since delivered by the late Reverend Mr. John Cotton, teacher of the First Church in Boston, in New-England.
Boston: printed by Bartholemew Green?, 1713
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Reason III.
The third Reason is taken from the estate of the person united to Christ, which being united, is not a natural, but a spiritual man; the reason stands thus, if there be no spiritual gifts of grace wrought and created in the Soul, then Christ is united by the Spirit of God to the natural man; for without ⟨p. 14⟩spiritual gifts, there is nothing but nature in us, to which Christ by his Spirit is united: But Christ is not united by the Spirit to the natural man; proof of this from 1 Cor. 2.14. The natural man doth not receive the things of God, nor of the Spirit of God, and therefore doth not receive Christ united to him.
Obj. A man is not a natural man […] a Spiritual man, when the Spirit of God dwells in him?
Obj. A man is not a natural man 〈…〉 a Spiritual man, when the Spirit of God dwells in him?