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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
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Fifthly, As men have a time, after which there is no place left for helping or altering their Estate, so was it meet Angels should have the like; that time to men is bodily death, which because Angels are not subject to, it was not unmeet their time should be their first spiritual death, their first sins, hence Damascen saith, Hoc est Angelis casus, quod hominibus mors.
Fifthly, As men have a time, after which there is no place left for helping or altering their Estate, so was it meet Angels should have the like; that time to men is bodily death, which because Angels are not subject to, it was not unmeet their time should be their first spirituall death, their first sins, hence Damascen saith, Hoc est Angelis casus, quod hominibus mors.
To this I say, That the Angels might have had another time, beyond which there hath been no place for repentance, namely not their first sin, but their wilful rejecting of a Saviour, if he had pleased to have offered them any. Thus you see that all these (and so are the rest) but mens devices and conjectures; the true reason you have, John 3.16. Gods love to us, which also causeth the Lord to say, as Jer. 8.4. God neither turneth nor returneth, Angels turn, but return not, men both turn and return, through this unspeakable love of God.
To this I say, That the Angels might have had another time, beyond which there hath been no place for repentance, namely not their first sin, but their wilfull rejecting of a Saviour, if he had pleased to have offered them any. Thus you see that all these (and so are the rest) but mens devices and conjectures; the true reason you have, John 3.16. Gods love to us, which also causeth the Lord to say, as Jer. 8.4. God neither turneth nor returneth, Angels turn, but return not, men both turn and return, through this unspeakable love of God.