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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.
Reas. Because all are washed away in Christ, our sins are imputed to him, and his righteousness is imputed to us, Isa. 53.5. 2 Cor. 5. ult. our sins are his, and his righteousness ours.
Reas. Because all are washed away in Christ, our sins are imputed to him, and his righteousnesse is imputed to us, Isa. 53.5. 2 Cor. 5. ult. our sins are his, and his righteousnesse ours.
Use 1. To reprove the Popish opinion, who teach, That the sins of the godly, though they be forgiven, yet they are not utterly forgiven, but with reservation of a Temporal punishment, partly here, and partly in purgatory: but it is a false Doctrine; for if he cover them, if he wash them away, if he throw them into the bottom of the Sea, if he blot them out as a thick Cloud, if he remember them no more, they are throughly forgiven, without any reservation of punishment.
Ʋse 1. To reprove the Popish opinion, who teach, That the sins of the godly, though they be forgiven, yet they are not utterly forgiven, but with reservation of a Temporall punishment, partly here, and partly in purgatory: but it is a false Doctrin; for if he cover them, if he wash them away, if he throw them into the bottom of the Sea, if he blot them out as a thick Cloud, if he remember them no more, they are throughly forgiven, without any reservation of punishment.
Use 2. It reproves their Doctrine that say, The afflictions of Gods children are punishments for sin; but we must know, if sins be not accounted ours, punishments are of another nature, if sins be changed then punishments also; all the sins of Gods Children are not accounted as sins, but diseases of the soul; and so all the afflictions of Gods servants are not as punishments, but as medicines and purges to root out distempers,