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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
A COMMENTARY UPON The First Epistle general OF JOHN. › Chapter 2 › Verse 13
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.
1 JOHN 2.13. The latter end. I write unto you Babes, because you have known the Father.
WE have heard of old men, and young men, now we come to his Apostolical writing to Babes.
Doct. Little Children, even Babes, may know God as their Father.
For the proof of this,
1. I will show it by Examples, 1 Sam. 3 1. though at first he knew not, yet from that time forward he knew God,