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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.
Doct. The Ministers of Christ are carefully to avoid all suspicion of novelty in all the Doctrines they teach, whether of faith or manners.
Doct. The Ministers of Christ are carefully to avoyd all suspicion of novelty in all the Doctrines they teach, whether of faith or manners.
Thus St. John, he seeing that it might seem a new Commandment, to walk as Christ hath walked, he tells them; It is no new Commandment that I write unto you, Jer. 6.16. Job 8.8, 9, 10. and Moses sharply reproved the Israelites for serving new gods, Deut. 32.17. Act. 26.22. he continued witnessing no other truth but what Moses and the Prophets had delivered before him.
Obj. Is it not said, Mat. 13.52. is it not the part of a good Scribe to bring forth things both new and old?