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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.
Sometimes it is called a changing of them, Isa. 1.18. Come let us reason together, though your sins were as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; they are quite changed, though they were deep scarlet sins, yet they shall be made as white as snow.
Sometimes it is called, a washing away of sin, Psal. 51.8. Sprinkle me with Hyssop, it is an allusion to the Blood in the Law sprinkled with Hyssop; so when we are sprinkled with Christs blood, our sins are washed away.
Sometimes it is called, a washing away of sin, Psal. 51.8. Sprinkle me with Hysop, it is an allusion to the Bloud in the Law sprinkled with Hysop; so when we are sprinkled with Christs bloud, our sins are washed away.
Sometimes it is called, a blotting out of sin, as a thick Cloud have I blotted out your sins, Isa. 44.22. As when the Sun appears in its brightness, the Cloud is suddenly vanished, and cleared, so our sins when they are forgiven, ⟨p. 87⟩Isa. 43.25. Jer. 31.34. I will remember your sins no more, Jer. 50.20. when God pardons sin, he doth so utterly blot it out, and it so vanisheth, that it is no more to be found, there is no such thing extant.