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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 4: Questions and Answers upon CHURCH-GOVERNMENT: By Mr. John Cotton. Begun 25.11 m. 1634.
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.
Q Wherein stands that Brotherly Unity which ⟨p. 24⟩the Members are to hold one with another?
Q Wherein stands that Brotherly Ʋnity which ⟨p. 24⟩the Members are to hold one with another?
A. To be perfectly joined together in one mind and one Judgment, and one speech, in one Truth; and when we cannot be of one Judgment, yet still to be of one heart, not provoking nor envying one another, but forbearing, and forgiving, not judging or despising one another, in differences of weakness; but so far as we are come to walk together, by the same Rule, and to teach and learn one another, the way of God more perfectly, till we all grow up in the unity of the faith, unto a perfect man in Christ Jesus, 1 Pet. 3.8. & 2.17 1 Thes 4.9 Heb 13.1 Eph 4.3, 4 Psal 133.1 Col 3.15 Joh 17.20, 21 Deut 17.20 Mat 23.8 2 Cor 8.14 Acts 2 42, 46 & 4.32 & 2.1 1 Cor 1.10 1 Joh 5.20 Phil 2.1, 2 Eph 4.2.32 Rom 14.3, 22 Phil 3.16 Gal 6 16 Acts 18.26 Eph 4.13
A. To be perfectly joyned together in one mind and one Judgment, and one speech, in one Truth; and when we cannot be of one Judgment, yet still to be of one heart, not provoking nor envying one another, but forbearing, and forgiving, not judging or despising one another, in differences of weakness; but so far as we are come to walk together, by the same Rule, and to teach and learn one another, the way of God more perfectly, till we all grow up in the unity of the faith, unto a perfect man in Christ Jesus,