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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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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.
Reason VII.
The Seventh Reason is taken from the voluntary concourse of every Child of God, with the Holy Ghost in every Spiritual Work: The Reason is framed thus? If there be no Spiritual Gifts of Grace in the Soul united to Christ, then in every good action, the Holy Ghost acteth immediately in natural faculties & affections to super-natural effects; as suppose he then acteth by natural love, to the Supernatural Love of God But in every good action, the Holy Ghost doth not act immediately ⟨p. 18⟩the natural faculties and effect of Supernatural Effects. Proofs of this,
If the Holy Ghost in every good action, do act immediately by natural faculty or affection, to a Supernatural Effect; then in every good action, he turneth the course of my natural faculty or affection against his proper and voluntary bent. For my natural faculty or affection, hath no proper or voluntary bent to spiritual good effects, but lusteth against them, Rom. 8.5. Gal. 5.17. But the Holy Ghost in every good action doth not turn the course of my faculty and affection against their proper & voluntary bent: For then we should not do good actions voluntarily, and then they would be unwelcome, and grievous to us, contrary to