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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34599	A conference Mr. John Cotton held at Boston with the elders of New-England 1. concerning gracious conditions in the soule before faith, 2. evidencing justification by sanctification, 3. touching the active power of faith : twelve reasons against stinted forms of prayer and praise : together with the difference between the Christian and antichristian church / written by Francis Cornwell ...	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.; Cornwell, Francis.	1646 (1646)	Wing C6335; ESTC R17280	52,817	177

special● mercies and particular experience● that the Lord hath done for a beleever when his soule was brough● into great adversity and when the Lord delivered him the Spirit o● God in the dayes of his mirth bringeth into his mind and causeth him with heart and lips to blesse th● Lord in the Congregation for his mercies received Thus Hannah that was barren ●he Lord made to keep house and ●o be the joyfull mother of a sonne ●ingeth her song of praise 1 Sam. 2. ● My heart rejoyceth in the Lord my ●orne is exalted in the Lord my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies because ● rejoyce in thy salvation Mary the mother of Jesus singeth her Magnificat My soule doth magnifie the Lord and my spirit rejoyceth in God my Saviour Luk. 1. 46 47. So when the Lord had made good unto old Zacharias what hee had foretold him concerning his sonne John Luk. 1. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. being filled with the Spirit breaketh forth into his Eucharistia of praise Luk. 1. 68. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for hee hath visited and redeemed his people Yea and old aged Simeon singeth his Nunc dimittis Lord let thy servant depart in peace for mine eyes have seene thy salvation Nay King David upon his har● warbles out the speciall mercies and favours and deliverances Go● had done for his soule Psal 103 Blesse the Lord O my soule and 〈◊〉 within mee blesse his holy Name Bles● the Lord O my soule and forget 〈◊〉 all his benefits Who forgiveth all thi●●● iniquities who healeth all thy diseases Who redeemeth thy life from destruction who crowneth thee with lovin● kindnesses and tender mercies ● Nay the Psalmist exhorteth th● Traveller the sicke man and th● Mariner to praise God for thei● speciall mercies received Psal 107. Hence holy Paul saith I will pra● with the spirit and I will pray wit● understanding also I will sing wit● the spirit and I will sing with under●standing also Else when thou shal● blesse with the spirit how shall he whic● occupieth the roome of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks ● Cor. 14. 15 16. So that to sing blesse and give thanks in the language of holy Scripture is all one Hence as spirituall Prayer is a Sacrifice Psal 141. 2. offered up unto God our Father in the name of Christ to comfort solace and cure a sad and grieved spirit so spirituall praise is a Sacrifice tendered to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ through Christ Heb. 13. 16. by a merry and rejoycing Spirit for the speciall mercies and blessings spirituall and temporall that the Lord hath bountifully bestowed on him According to that of the Apostle Iames Is any afflicted amongst yo● let him pray Is any merry amongst you let him sing James 5. 13. 3. Thirdly Sacrifice is a bro●en and a contrite heart for his sins and his dayly failings he hath committed against a crucified Jesus when God powreth upon his people the Spirit of grace and supplication Zech. 12. 10. The more the Spirit of Christ openeth the eyes of their spirituall understanding to looke up by faith upon a Jesus who for their sinnes was peirced the more will their hearts bee pierced with godly sorrow for their sinnes which bringeth repentance to salvation never to be repented of 2 Cor. 7. 10 11. and to loath themselves in their owne eyes for all their spirituall and corporall abominations Ezek. 36. Hence beleeving David the King that sorrowed after a godly manner for all his iniquities said The sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit A broken and contrite heart for sinne o● God thou wilt not despise Psalm 51. 17. 4. Sacrifice is a free ready and cheerefull contribution to the poor● and needy members of Christ Hebr. 13. 16. To doe good and distribute forget not for with such a sacrifice God is well pleased Phil. 4. 18. 5. Sacrifice is an holy life which the Spirit of Christ formeth in us Rom. 12. 1. I beseech you brethren upon the mercifulnesse of God that yee present your bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to God which is your reasonable service 1 Cor. 6. 20. Yee are bought with a price glorifie God therefore in body and spirits which are Gods Thirdly The Altar that sanctifieth the person and the Sacrifice and maketh them both acceptable unto God Is Jesus the Christ 1 Pet. 2. 5. Yee also as lively stones that have received life from Jesus the living stone are built up a spirituall house and holy Priest-hood to offer up spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ To this Spirituall House or Church of the New Testament gathered according to the royall Commission of King Jesus Matth. 28. 18 19 20. as the Churches in Judea in Rome Corinth Galatia Ephesus c. were constituted The Promises were made First that God would bee a Father to all those that did obey his voice and come out from among the Jewes Heathens and Gentiles and separate from their false waies and superstitious worship and touch not the uncleane thing and he will receive you And yee shall be his Sonnes and Daughters saith the Lord the Almighty 2 Corinth 6. 17 18. Secondly for all the defects that these commit against his Spirituall worship they have this promise The bloud of Iesus Christ his Sonne clenseth them from all their sinnes 1 Iohn 1. 7. 1 Iohn 2. 1 2. Thirdly So many as have been b●ptized into the name of the Lord Jesus that is into the profession of Faith that the Apostles taught to wit that men should beleeve in a Crucified dead and risen Jesus whom God hath exalted to be Lord and Christ had the promise of receiving the gifts of the holy Spirit How prove you that to this Faith and Baptisme the gift of the holy Spirit was granted Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus for the remission of sinnes and yee shall receive the g●fts of the holy Spirit For the promise of giving the holy Spirit is to you and to your children as Joel the Prophet foretold I will powre out my spirit upon all flesh and your Sonnes and Daughters shall prophesie and your old men shall dreame Dreames and your young men shall see V●sions and also upon the servants and upon the handmaides in those daies I will powre out my spirit Joel 2. ●8 ●9 And all that are a farre off even so many as the Lord our God shall call verse 29. and to the twelve in Asia ●he promise was made good Acts 19. 5 6 7. And when this Spirit is come he will guid thee into all truth for he shall not speake of himselfe but whatsoever he shall heare that shall ●ee speake and he will shew them things to come John 16. 13. Yea to be to the whole Church as a River that shall make glad the City of God Psal 46. 4. compared with John 7. 37. If any man thirst let him come

to me and drinke vers 38. Hee that beleeveth on me as the Scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters Vers 39. But this he spake of the Spirit that they that beleeve on him shall receive For the holy Spirit was not yet given because that Jesus wa● not yet glorified But when Jesus was by the right hand of his Father exalted he received of the Father th● promise of the holy Spirit He● hath shed forth this which you now se● and heare Acts 22. 33. Fourthly All things that ar● lost and accursed to mankinde by the fall of the first Adam are restored and sanctified to the use o● the beleevers in and by the second Adam Jesus the Christ All thing● are yours Whether Paul or Apollo or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come all are yours and yee are Christs and Christ is Gods 1 Cor 3. 21 22 23. Hence the unbeleeving wife is sanctified to the use of the beleever And shee being an unbeleever dwelling with the beleeving husband is sanctified to bring forth an holy Seed to the use of the beleever though the childe be borne in sinne and by nature the child of wrath as the most prophanest Pagans are Psal 51. 5. Ephes 2. 3. Void of understanding not able to distinguish betwixt good and evill Yet Titus 1. 15 Unto the pure all things are pure Nay the meat and drinke and the Creature which God hath created are sanctified to his use 1 Tim 4. 3 4 5. For every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused If it bee received with thankesgiving For it is sanctified by the Word and Prayer What Priviledge hath the unbeleeving party by dwelling and abiding with the beleever Great is the Priviledge if he or shee will abide for living under them where the holy Spirit breatheth and his lips drop as the honey combe the sweet precious treasure of the Gospell of grace What knowst thou oh thou beleeving husband whether God will not make thee instrumentall to save thy wife though an unbeleever Or what knowest thou oh thou beleeving wife whether God will not make thee instrumentall to save thy husband 1 Cor. 7. 16. And when hee is converted hee will blesse God for you as David did for Abigail in another case Blessed be the Lord for you and blessed be your good counsell for you have been an instrument to convert a soule from the errour of his way and save a soule from death and hide a multitude of transgressions Is it not a greater Priviledge for an Infant to be borne of a beleever then to be borne of a Jew a Turke or an Heathen yea For the Children borne of beleevers are brought up in holy instruction and education from their childe-hood as young Timothy was taught in the Scriptures from his youth by his mother Eunice seeing it is the charge the holy Spirit hath laid upon beleeving Parents Ephes 6. 4. Fathers provoke not your children to wrath But bring them up in the nurture and feare of the Lord. Whereas if their Parents were Jewes and Turkes and Heathens the Parents being without Christ being Aliants from the Common-wealth of Israel and strangers from the covenant of Promise having no hope and without God in the world Ephes 2 12. Their children brought up with them follow after Superstitious vanities and ferve dumbe Idolls as their Teachers and Fathers led them ● Cor. 12. 1. Fiftly They are people live under precious promises And hee hath promised that the eye of his providence shall bee over them all their dayes for good He biddeth them not distract themselves with immoderate carking care For what they shall eate or what they shall drinke or yet for their bodies what they shall put on Reasons Christ giveth are two First Your heavenly Father knoweth yee have need of all these things Secondly But seeke yee first the Kingdome of God and his righteousnesse and all these things shall be added unto you Matth. 6. 33. Now the members of the Church of Christ gathered according to Christs Institution Matth. 28. 18 19 20. are the Children of the Kingdome and under the Promise that God as a Father will provide for them Therefore they are exhorted to bee carefull for nothing But in every thing by Prayer and Supplications with thankesgiving let their request be made knowne unto God Philip. 4. 6. Hence the Apostle exhorteth the Church of ●he Hebrewes Let your conversation bee without covetousnesse and bee content with such things as yee have For he hath said I will never faile thee nor forsake thee So that we may boldly say the Lord is my helper And I will not feare what man shall doe unto me Hebr. 13. 5 6. Sixtly They are under the promise of Audience whensoever they come to petition in the name of his Sonne Jesus the Christ for what they want be they few or many Matth. 18. 19. I say to you that if two of you beleevers baptized agree in earth as touching any thing that they shall aske It shall bee done for them of my Father in Heaven Vers 20. For where two or three are gathered together in my Name that is by his Power Authority and Royall Commission he hath promised his presence there am I in the midst of them to heare and returne them an answer to their request yea and to protect and preserve his Church gathered in every Age to the ends of the world Thus at the Prayer of the Church that was reproched for holding forth the Faith of Jesus the gift of the holy Spirit was given to speake the Word of God with boldnes Acts 4. 31. At the earnest suit and intercession the Church made unto God Peter the Apostle was released out of his Imprisonment and brought to the house where they were praying Acts 12. Seventhly Lastly there is no Society hath such Priviledges as this Spirituall Ho●se which is constituted according to the Magna Charta of the Gospel Matth. 28. 18 19 20. Marc. 16. 15 16. though while they are in the Wo●ld they are for the Faith of Jesus the Christ killed all the day long either in their good names by r●proch and ●lander or in their estates by the ●ighty Nimrods of these oppres●●ng daies they are exposed to plun●er and spoiling which they are to ●ake patiently Hebr. 10. 32. or in ●heir Liberties to be imprisoned for ●ontending for the Faith of Jesus ●he Christ 1 John 5. 1. Once given ●nto the Saints or forbid to preach ●ny more in his name as the Apo●tle Peter was Acts 4 18. or to have ●heir lives taken violently f●om ●hem as James the Apostle was by ●he Tyrant Herod Acts 12. 2. 3. And accounted But as sheepe for the slaughter regarded no more by the Wolves in sheepes clothing then the bloudy Butcher regardeth the life of his sheepe yet the poorest member amongst them is rich