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An exposition on the whole fifth chapter of S. Johns Gospel also notes on…An exposition on the vvhole fifth chapter of S. Iohns Gospell also notes on…
An exposition on the whole fifth chapter of S. Johns Gospel also notes on other choice places of Scripture, taken by a reverend divine, now with God, and found in his study after his death, written with his own hand ...An exposition on the vvhole fifth chapter of S. Iohns Gospell also notes on other choice places of Scripture, taken by a reuerend diuine, now with God, and found in his study after his death, written with his owne hand ...
London: printed by H. Lownes and R. Young for John Bartlett, 1630London: printed by H. Lownes and R. Young for Iohn Bartlett, 1630
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But will some say, This seems a hard matter, and not for our imitation, that we should lay down our lives for our wives: But yet so it is, for besides that the comparison here doth expressly lay it down, Saint John, 1 John 3.16. saith, that we should lay down our lives for our brethren: and then the argument holds a maiore ad maius, that if for them, much more for our wives: But here some cautions are to be observed:
But will some say, This seemes a hard matter, and not for our imitation, that wee should lay downe our liues for our wiues: But yet so it is, for besides that the comparison heere doth expresly lay it downe, Saint Iohn, 1 Iohn 3.16. saith, that we should lay downe our liues for our brethren: and then the argument holds a maiore ad maius, that if for th•m, much more for our wiues: But heere some cautions are to be obserued:
1 That when it cometh to this high pitch of love, there be an absolute necessity, that the good cannot be effected by any other means: as the benefit of the Church could have been wrought by no other means than by the death of Christ.
1 That when it commeth to this high pitch of loue, there be an absolute necessit•, that the good cannot be effected by any other meanes: as the benefit of the Church could haue beene wrought by no other meanes than by the death of Christ.