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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.
1 They have the same God and Father that begets them, Ephes. 4.6. Jam. 1.17, 18.
2 They have one Mother, the Church, Gal. 4.26. and he speaks of Jerusalem on earth, though he calls it Jerusalem which is from above, because it is above an earthly condition, and John himself was a little Child to some, as they were to him, Gal. 4.19. And so sometimes private Christians they do labour and travel in begetting children to God; it is a wonder to see many times, how some are put to pangs to beget their friends to God, sometimes by Prayer, by exhortation, by reproof, by all means, they use much pains, therefore the Church is called, The Mother of us all, because some in the Church beget us.
2 They have one Mother, the Church, Gal. 4.26. and he speaks of Jerusalem on earth, though he calls it Jerusalem which is from above, because it is above an earthly condition, and John himself was a little Childe to some, as they were to him, Gal. 4.19. And so sometimes private Christians they do labour and travel in begetting children to God; it is a wonder to see many times, how some are put to pangs to beget their friends to God, sometimes by Prayer, by exhortation, by reproof, by all means, they use much pains, therefore the Church is called, The Mother of us all, because some in the Church beget us.