What is Congregational Church government?In Scripture, the ordinance of church discipline and the power of ordaining officers are given to a congregation of Christians meeting regularly in one place.John Owen credited this book with convincing him that Congregational church government is the way taught in Holy Scripture. The renowned theologian John Cotton, who famously declined to participate in the Westminster Assembly, saying, "why should I travel 3000 miles to agree with four men?", penned his manuscript in Boston, Massachusetts, and shipped it to London, where Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nye had it published in 1644, in the midst of the venerable Westminster Assembly. They added a lengthy preface. It is included in this volume, along with a new introduction.

The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven

Cotton, John

Religion & Spirituality

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The Way of Faith (LIBRARY OF AMERICAN PURITAN WRITINGS)

Christian Books & Bibles

Ams Pr Inc

Library of American Puritan Writings: John Cotton, End of the World

Bloudy Tenent, Washed and Made White in the Blood of the Lamb (Research Library of Colonial Americana)

Ayer Co. Pub

Christ the Fountaine of Life, or Sundry Choyce: Sermons on Part of the Fifth Chapter of the First Epistle of St. John (Research Library of Colonial Americana)

History

World

John Cotton on the Churches of New England (The John Harvard Library, 80)

Americas

Harvard University Press

John Cotton on the Churches of New England

Belknap Press

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and Power Thereof According to the Word of God

Self-Help

Motivational

Kessinger Publishing

This work presents the covenant of God's free grace, most sweetly unfolded, and comfortably applied to a disquieted soul from that text of 2 Sam. 23 Ver. 5, also a doctrinal conclusion that there is in all such who are effectually called, in dwelling spiritual gifts and graces, wrought and created in them by the Holy Ghost. Also added is A Profession of Faith, made by John Davenport. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Written in Old English.

Covenant of God's Free Grace

John Cotton (1584-1652) was a key figure in the English Puritan movement in the first half of the seventeenth century, a respected leader among his generation of emigrants from England to New England. This volume collects all known surviving correspondence by and to Cotton. These 125 letters--more than 50 of which are here published for the first time--span the decades between 1621 and 1652, a period of great activity and change in the Puritan movement and in English history. Now carefully edited, annotated, and contextualized, the letters chart the trajectory of Cotton's career and revive a variety of voices from the troubled times surrounding Charles I's reign, including those of such prominent figures as Oliver Cromwell, Bishop John Williams, John Dod, and Thomas Hooker, as well as many little-known persons who wrote to Cotton for advice and guidance. Among the treasures of early Anglo-American history, these letters bring to life the leading Puritan intellectual of the generation of the Great Migration and illustrate the network of mutual support that nourished an intellectual and spiritual movement through difficult times.

The Correspondence of John Cotton (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture

Bush, Sargent, Jr.

Univ of North Carolina Pr

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