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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

25. yet they deny him their King and P●ophet in all his outward administrations in admitting of members into his Spirituall Kingdome stablished ●ccording to Christs eternall Commission Mat. 28. 18 19 20. and are ●uil● upon wood hay and stubble 1 Cor. 3. 12. Now though these pre●end to come out of Babylon yet they persecute scof●e and deride all poore weake enq●i●ing soules for seeking after the pure wayes of that spirituall Worship that Jesus the Christ hath appointed and established in all the Churches of the Saints gathe●ed according to the P●imitive pattern Act. 2. 41 42 43. as the watchman ●id the Spouse Cant. 5. 7. Wee condemne onely those that sinne through a wilfull contempt because the ev●ll of their halfe-way Reformation is discovered by them whom God hath raised up to declare his truth in an evill day Now when these sorts of men shall bee so farre from repenting of all the evill that they have done to the servants of the Lord Jesus in this kind that they still persevere in persecuting them for the truth they deliver as the Jewes did of old the Lord Jesus and their own Prophets as it is written 1 Thes 2. 14. For yee brethren became followers of the Churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus for yee have also suffered like things of your owne countrymen even as they of the Jewes Verse 15. Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their owne Prophets and have persecuted us and they please not God and are contrary to all men Ver. 16. Forbidding us to preach to the Gentiles that they may be saved that they may fill up the measure of their owne iniquity that the wrath of God may come upon them unto the uttermost Upon these sorts of men not we but the Lord Jesus hath set this dreadfull doome This is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darknesse rather then light because their deeds are evill For every one that doth evill hateth the light neither cometh to the light least his deeds should bee dis●overed John 3. 19 20. Not wee but the good Spirit of ●ur God condemneth all those that ●inger after false and Antichristian wayes When Babylons down-fall ●s pronounced R●vel 14. 8. Babylon ●s fallen it is fall●n that great City because shee made all nations drunk with ●he wine of her fornications V 9. Af●er that followed a third Angel that cryed with a loud voyce saying if any man be hee high or low rich or poore noble or ignoble bond or free male or female worship the Beast that Antichrist of Rome that exalteth himselfe above all that is called God or worshipped or his Image that is his Government that receive their power and ju●isdiction from in or under him or his mark viz. his Canons Constitutions Edicts or Decrees into their hands viz. to fight or write in the defence of them or into their foreheads to plead or preach for them mark their doome The same not that doe it ignorantly through un●belie●e that are mislead by thei● Teachers but they which sinn against knowledge obstinately to defend their Antichristian practices● shall drink of the wine of the wrath o● God which is poured out without mix●ture into the cup of his indignation an● they shall be tormented with fire an● brimstone in the presence of the hol● Angels and in the presence of the Lamb● And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever and they hav● no rest day nor night who worship th● Beast and his image and receive th● mark of his name Revel 14. 10 11● The good Lord of his great mercy grant to all those that belong to his election that linger after false and Antichristian wayes and practices repenting hearts to forsake their sinnes that none of that evill threatned fall upon them Amongst which marks of the Beast Is not the decree of Pope Innocentius the third Decret Gregor lib. 3. ●it 42. cap 3. as Doctor Willet in his Synopsis Papismi de baptismo infanti●m citeth That whereas Circum●ision by the commandement of God was conferred upon the in●ants as well as the elder sort so Baptisme also which succeedeth in ●he roome thereof and is more generall to men and women must ●e conferred to both By which Decree the Nations in name and title have been christianized though ●n the power they have denyed it and have killed many a precious Saint under the brand of Hereticks for opposing it whereby the inhabitants of the earth have beene made drunk with the wine of her fornication Revel 17. 2. But the Spirit of God describeth the true Church after Babylons down-fall Revel 14. 12. Here is the patience of Saints here are they which keep the commandements of God and the faith of Jesus And is it not a commandement of God that all Churches should be gathered according to the Commission of King Jesus Mat. 28. 18 19 20. Mar. 16● 15 16. Wee onely condemne those Churches that persecute Christ in his members from city to city as Saul did Act. 26. 9 10. fo● keeping the commandements o● God and the faith of Jesus Mat● 16. 16. 1 Joh. 5. 1. as no true Churches of Christ but rather Synagogues of Satan for no hurtful thing shall be in the holy mountaine● Esay 65. 25. The wolfe and the lam● shal● fold together and the lion shall eat straw like an oxe and the dust shall the serpent eat They shall not destroy in all my holy mountaine saith the Lord● As likewise Esay 11. 6 7 8 9. If the Churches that men now contend for coming out of Babylon by degrees should crucifie Christ in his members for contending for the faith of Jesus the Christ once given to the Saints Mat. ●6 16 17 18. yea reproach whip crop and persecute them for holding the Commission of their royall Master Jesus the Christ Mat. 28. 18 19 20. that Antichrist by his Decretals and Popish Councels hath defaced as of late the Arch-Prelate of England did some Worthies that stood for a Reformation according to the light God discovered unto them then they in such an estate were no true Churches of Christ but Congregations that are hardened and speake evill of the way before the multitude and are to be separated from Act. 19. 9. But if they be meek and gentle peaceable and willing to bee instructed inquiring after truth it being discovered by the true Spouse whom God hath enlightened to direct them wee contemne not those daughters but rejoyce in their fellowship tender them as lambes of Christ that have a longing desire to be added to that sheepfold whereof Jesus is the true shepherd though as yet ignorant of the way of truth in many things But as for the neutrall party tha● are neither hot nor cold but luke-warme God will spue them out o● his mouth Revel 3. 15 16. Whether the Church of Chris● is not now to be recovered out o● an Antichristian estate that denyeth that Jesus is