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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.
Use 1. To teach Ministers so to look at their Spiritual Fatherhood, as not to forget their Spiritual Brotherhood, ver. 1. he calls them little children, not that Ministers should show dominion over them, as Lords over them, 2 Cor. 1. ult. 1 Pet. 5.2, 3, 4. so then their Fatherhood must not make them Lords, but the name of Brotherhood must bind them to communion, they have indeed a kind of power, but not to subdue their Spirits to them, not to believe as they do, or walk as they do, only so far as they are like unto Christ, 1 Cor. 11.1. otherwise Christians are not to be led by them.
Ʋse 1. To teach Ministers so to look at their Spiritual Fatherhood, as not to forget their Spiritual Brotherhood, ver. 1. he calls them little children, not that Ministers should shew dominion over them, as Lords over them, 2 Cor. 1. ult. 1 Pet. 5.2, 3, 4. so then their Fatherhood must not make them Lords, but the name of Brotherhood must binde them to communion, they have indeed a kinde of power, but not to subdue their Spirits to them, not to believe as they do, or walk as they do, only so far as they are like unto Christ, 1 Cor. 11.1. otherwise Christians are not to be led by them.
Use 2 This must teach both Ministers and People to maintain brotherly love and affection, if you be Brethren, Let brotherly love continue, Heb. 13.1. 1 Pet. 2.17. therefore what kind of desire and comfort there is in brotherly Communion, what mutual joy when they meet, the same should be in Christian Ministers and People.