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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 Apostles of Christ, when they could not be present with the Children of God, they were willing to advertise them by writing of things behoveful.
So Paul writ his epistles when he was absent, and Peter, and James, and Christ himself to the seven Churches.
1 They write first to help their knowledge, to make them wise, 1 Tim. 3.15. to know their duties, 2 Tim. 3.15.
2 They wrote to them to help their memories, 2 Pet. 1.12, 13.14.