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A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…
A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first Epistle general of John by ... John Cotton ...A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first Epistle generall of John by ... John Cotton ...
London: printed by M.S. for Thomas Parkhurst, 1658
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.
A. Christ hath walked in some ways as God, in some ways, as Mediator, God and man, and in some ways, as man.
A. Christ hath walked in some wayes as God, in some wayes, as Meadiator, God and man, and in some wayes, as man.
1 Then he wrought some works as God, he fasted forty days and forty nights, he fed five thousand with five loaves and two fishes, he walked on the water, &c. God never calls us to imitate him in these works, but he calls, learn of me for I am meek and lowly.
1 Then he wrought some works as God, he fasted forty dayes and forty nights, he fed five thousand with five loaves and two fishes, he walked on the water, &c. God never calls us to imitate him in these works, but he calls, learn of me for I am meek and lowly.
Q. 2. Doth he call us to walk in those ways which he walked in as Mediator?
A. He doth not call us to walk in the same kind, but in resemblance to them, as he dyed for us and rose again, so in resemblance he calls us to dye unto sin, and to rise again to the life of Grace, so to dye to the World as he dyed to nature, and to rise to newness of life as he arose from the dead,