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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

the assurance of faith of our justification doe spring from sight of sanctification it is by right of some promise made unto such a worke and the right which a man hath by promise to a worke maketh the assurance of the promise but debt unto him and then the promise is not sure unto him out of grace The fourth Argument If when the Lord declareth himselfe pacified toward us he utterly shames us and confounds us in the sight and sense of our unworthynesse and unrighteousnesse then he doth not give unto us our first assurance of the faith of our justification upon the sight and sense of sanctification But when the Lord declareth himself pacified towards us he doth utterly ashame us and confound us in the sight and sense of our unworthynesse and unrighteousnesse Therefore he doth not first give us assurance of the faith of our justification upon the sight and sense of our sanctification The consequence is plaine from the Law of Contraries For if the Lord shame us with a sight and sense of sinne hee doth not then first comfort and incourage us with the sight and sense of sanctification Minor is proved Ezek. 16. 63. Rom. 4. 5. Ezek. 16. 63. That thou maist remember and bee confounded and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done saith the Lord God Rom 4. 5. To him that worketh not but beleeveth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is accounted for righteousnesse The fift Argument When sanctification is not evident it cannot be an evidence of justification But when Justification is hidden and doubtfull Sanctification is not evident Therefore Sanctification cannot be our first evidence of Justification Minor When Faith is hidden and doubtfull Sanctification is not evident But when Justification is hidden and doubtfull Faith is hidden and doubtfull Therefore when Justification is hidden and doubtfull Sanctification is not evident The first proofe of the Major If Faith be the evidence of things not seene then when Faith it selfe is hidden and doubtfull which maketh all things evident what can be cleare unto us But Faith is the evidence of things not seene Hebr. 11. 1. Therefore when Faith it selfe is hidden and doubtfull Sanctification cannot be evident The second proofe of the Major If no Sanctification be true and sincere but when it is wrought in faith then neither can it be evident But when it evidently appeareth to bee wrought in Faith Therefore when Faith is hidden and doubtfull Sanctification cannot be evident But no Sanctification is pure and sincere but when it is wrought in Faith nor cannot be evident but when it evidently appeareth to bee wrought in Faith Therefore when Faith is hidden and doubtfull Sanctification cannot be evident The sixth Argumont Such a Faith as a practicall Sillogisme can make is not a Faith wrought by the Lords Almighty power For though Sillogismus ●i●em facit yet such a faith is but an ●umane faith because the Conclusion followeth but from the strength of reasonings or reason not from the power of God by which alone Divine things are wrought Ephes ● 19. 20. Col. 2. 20. But the Faith which is wrought by a word and a worke and the light of a renewed Conscience without the witnesse of the spirit and ●efore it is such a Faith as a practi●all Sillogisme can make Therefore such a Faith as is wrought ●y a word and a worke or by the ●ight of a renewed Con●cience without the witnesse of the Spirit and ●efore it is not a Faith wrought by the Lords Almighty ●ower The proofe of the Minor From the condition of all these ●hree the Word the Work and the ●ight of a renewed Conscience they are all but created blessings and gifts There●ore cannot produce of themselves a word of Almighty power Because the Word without the Almighty power of the Spirit is but a dead Letter and the Work hath no more power then the Word nor so much neither For Faith cometh rather by hearing of a Word then by seeing of a Worke Rom. 10. 17. And the light of a renewed Conscience is a created gift of spirituall knowledge in the conscience 1 Iohn 2. ● Hereby we know that wee know him that we keepe his Commandements 1. John 3. 14. Wee know wee have passed from death to life because we love the Brethren Vers 19. Hereby we know we are of the 〈◊〉 No better Answer need to be expected then what Calvin hath given in the exposition of these Scriptures who thus expoundeth them Though every beleever hath the testimony of his Faith from his Workes yet that commeth in a posteriori probatione a latter or secondary proofe instead of a signe Therefore the assurance of Faith saith hee doth wholly reside in the grace of Christ and we must alwaies saith he remember that it is not from our love to the Brethren that we have the knowledge of our estate which the Apostle speaketh of as if from thence were fetched the assurance of salvation For surely wee doe not know by any other meanes that we are the Children of God but because hee sealeth unto our heart by his Spirit our adoption of us out of free-grace and we by faith receive the assured pledge of him given in Christs love Therefore as an addition or inferiour helpe for a prop unto faith not for a foundation to leane on Certaine it is that those which ●ohn writ unto were three sorts of ●en Old men Young men and Babes ●et there was none of them but did know their good estate by the knowledge of the Father before they knew their good estat by their brotherly love For even of Babe● he saith they knew the Father 1 Ioh● 2. 13. And therefore by the rule o● relation they knew their Son-ship● and adoption And if it should be asked how they knew it John telleth By the unction they had receive● from Christ ● Ioh. 2. 27. that is b● the spirit it selfe which taught them t● know all things which no created gifts of Sanctification could doe Even in nature children do● not first come to know their parents either by their lov● to their brethren or by their obedience to their parents but from their parents love descending on them So we loved him because he first loved us 1 Iohn 4. 19 Herein is love not that we loved God bu● that he loved us and sent his Son to bee● propitiation for e●r sins 1 Ioh. 4. 10. If Iohn could give sanctification fo● an evidence of adoption to such a knew their good estate before by the witnesse of the Spirit this were but to light a Candle unto the Sunne Whether were it more absurd to light a Candle unto the Sunne or to light a Candle to see to a mans eyes Now faith is instead of eyes unto the soule By Faith Abraham saw the day of Christ and rejoyced ●hough it were a farre off Ioh.