The Works of John Cotton, Volumes 1-5

John Cotton shaped the doctrine, worship, and discipline of a fledgling society striving to live fully under God’s Word. With clarity, conviction, and pastoral warmth, he addressed both the great ecclesiastical questions and the intimate personal wrestlings of his time. The Works of John Cotton gathers his most important treatises and sermons in a newly edited, cloth-bound set. It recovers a vital link in the chain of Reformed thought and reintroduces a voice that helped shape the American church before it had a name. Contents Volume 1: Puritan Piety General Preface Introduction—Puritan Piety 1. The Way of Life, or God’s Way and Course in Bringing the Soul in, Keeping It in, and Carrying It on the Ways of Life and Peace 2. A Brief Exposition with Practical Observations upon the Whole Book of Ecclesiastes 3. God’s Mercy Mixed with His Justice, or His People’s Deliverance in Times of Danger 4. Milk for Babes, Drawn Out of Both Testaments, Chiefly for the Spiritual Nourishment of Boston Babes in Either England, but May Be of Like Use for Any Children 5. Treatise of Faith; Twelve Fundamental Articles of Christian Religion; A Doctrinal Conclusion; Questions and Answers upon Church Government 6. Some Treasure Fetched Out of Rubbish 7. God’s Promise to His Plantation 8. Prefatory Epistle in John Norton, Responsio ad totam quaestionum syllogen à clarissimo viro domino Guilielmo Apollonio 9. Prefatory Epistle in John Norton, The Orthodox Evangelist, or A Treatise Wherein Many Great Evangelical Truths Are Briefly Discussed, Cleared, and Confirmed 10. Prefatory Epistle in Arthur Hildersham, Lectures upon the Fourth of John Scripture Index Subject Index Volume 2: Antinomian Controversy General Preface Introduction—Antinomian Controversy 1. A Practical Commentary, or an Exposition, with Observations, Reasons, and Uses upon the First Epistle of John 2. Gospel Conversion, Discovering (1) Whether Any Gracious Conditions or Qualifications Are Wrought in the Soul before Faith in Christ, (2) How the Assurance of a Man’s Salvation Is to Be Evidenced, and (3) the Manner of the Soul’s Closing with Christ 3. Several Questions of Serious and Necessary Consequence, Propounded by the Teaching Elders, unto Mr. John Cotton of Boston in New England with His Respective Answer to Each Question 4. Rejoinder 5. The Covenant of God’s Free Grace, Most Sweetly Unfolded and Comfortably Applied to a Disquieted Soul from the Text of 2 Samuel 23:5 Scripture Index Subject Index Volume 3: Religious Liberty 1. Christ, the Fountain of Life, or Sundry Sermons on Part of the Fifth Chapter of the First Epistle of John 2. A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace, as It Is Dispensed to the Elect Seed Effectually unto Salvation, Being the Substance of Divers Sermons Preached upon Acts 7:8 3. A Sermon Preached by the Reverend Mr. John Cotton, Teacher of the First Church in Boston, New England, Delivered at Salem, 1636 4. The Controversy Concerning Liberty of Conscience in Matters of Religion, Truly Stated, and Distinctly and Plainly Handled 5. A Letter of Mr. John Cotton’s, Teacher of the Church in Boston, New England, to Mr. Williams, a Preacher There 6. The Bloody Tenet, Washed and Made White in the Blood of the Lamb. Whereunto Is Added a Reply to Mr. Williams’s Answer 7. A Discourse about Civil Government in a New Plantation Whose Design Is Religion 8. An Abstract of the Laws of New England, as They Are Now Established Scripture Index Subject Index Volume 4: Congregational Polity General Preface Introduction—Congregational Polity 1. The True Constitution of a Particular Visible Church, Proved by Scripture 2. The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and Power Thereof, according to the Word of God 3. The Way of the Churches of Christ in New England, or The Way of Churches Walking in Brotherly Equality or Coordination, without Subjection of One Church to Another 4. The Way of Congregational Churches Cleared, in Two Treatises. In the Former, from the Historical Aspersions of Mr. Robert Baillie’s Book Called A Dissuasive from the Errors of the Time. In the Latter, from Some Contradictions of Vindiciae Clavium, and from Some Misconstructions of Learned Mr. Rutherford’s Book Entitled The Due Right of Presbyteries 5. The Holiness of Church Members, in Two Treatises 6. Certain Queries, Tending to Accommodation and Communion of Presbyterian and Congregational Churches 7. A Modest and Clear Answer to Mr. Ball’s Discourse of Set Forms of Prayer 8. Singing of Psalms: A Gospel Ordinance, or A Treatise wherein These Particulars Are Handled: The Duty Itself, the Matter to Be Sung, the Singers, the Manner of Singing 9. The Grounds and Ends of the Baptism of the Children of the Faithful, Opened in a Familiar Discourse by Way of a Dialogue or Brotherly Conference 10. A Short Discourse of Mr. John Cotton, Touching the Time When the Lord’s Day Begins, Whether at the Evening or in the Morning Scripture Index Subject Index Volume 5: Apocalyptic History General Preface Introduction—Apocal