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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 As we ought not to affect new-fanglednesse, so we ought not to loathe and reject newness; before St. John carefully avoided new fanglednesse, now he commends newness.
Ʋse 1 As we ought not to affect new-fanglednesse, so we ought not to loathe and reject newnesse; before St. John carefully avoided new fanglednesse, now he commends newnesse.
The ground of this difference is;
1 Look whatever comes from God (the Ancient of days) is always new, and never waxeth old, and as it is new, so it is always old, yea old enough if it come from God, Eccles. 1.9.
2 If it come from God, the newer it is the better it is, because our old Natures, and Corruptions, and Courses should always be abhorred of us, but grace, and that new man, and new ways of holiness should be acceptable to us.