A34689:117
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.
First, That he might be a middle person, or of a middle nature, between the persons offending, and the persons offended; if he had still remained God, he had been the person offended with us; or if only man, then he had been the party offending: and therefore that he might be of a middle condition, it was needful he should take upon him our nature.
First, That he might be a middle person, or of a middle nature, between the persons offending, and the persons offended; if he had still remained God, he had been the person offended with us; or if onely man, then he had been the party offending: and therefore that he might be of a middle condition, it was needfull he should take upon him our nature.
Secondly, That that nature of ours which had offended, might make satisfaction; if he had not taken on him our nature, he could not have satisfied for our sins, Heb. 2.16.