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A brief exposition with practical observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes by that…A briefe exposition with practicall observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes by that…
A brief exposition with practical observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes by that late pious and worthy divine, Mr. John Cotton ... ; published by Anthony Tuckney ...A briefe exposition with practicall observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes by that late pious and worthy divine, Mr. John Cotton ... ; published by Anthony Tuckney ...
London: printed by T.C. for Ralph Smith, 1654
A BRIEF EXPOSITION UPON ECCLESIASTES. › VersesA BRIEFE EXPOSITION UPON ECCLESIASTES. › Verses
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Use 2. To dissuade and direct from all this excess of righteousness here forbidden; not from the duties, but from taking them for our righteousness; when we have lived long in them, they are either our righteousness imputed or inherent.
Ʋse 2. To disswade and direct from all this excesse of righteousnesse here forbidden; not from the duties, but from taking them for our righteousnesse; when we have lived long in them, they are either our righteousness imputed or inherent.
Quest. What would you have us to do more?
Quest. What would you have us to doe more?
Answ. 1. Know, why Christ is Good, as Matth. 19.17. feel your, First, Want of him and faith in him, John 16.7, 8.2. Worth of him, Cant. 4.10. Secondly, Listen duly to the word for some promise, doctrine, or example ⟨p. 143⟩of grace, in which Christ is wont to convey his spirit to lost souls to beget Faith. 1. Either persuading us of grace from God to our souls in him, Psal. 119.43. 2. Or at least setting up him in our hearts as our sovereign good, Psal. 73.25, 36. Thirdly, If you feel him not applying promises to you, nor himself in any word of grace with power, pray over the promises, and meditate on them; they will so give faith. Observe if this do not utterly pull down all our high thoughts of former worth in our selves,