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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. 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, 2 Chron. 34. see it in Josiah; so Timothy, it is said that he knew the Scripture of a child, 2 Tim. 2.15. Luke 1.15. and our Saviour bears testimony of little children, Suffer little children to come unto me, for to such belongs the Kingdom of Heaven. Mark 10.14. and that they were little ones, we may see, in that he took them in his arms, as we use to do infants, and whereas the Anabaptists say, he means not of these, but of such as are of years but little children in grace, this cavil is vain, for otherwise his reason had been in vain▪ for he might have said it as well of Sheep as little Lambs, for such are Gods Servants, but yet he never mentions such, but only these little ones, that is, little children.
1. I will shew it by Examples, 1 Sam. 3 1. though at first he knew not, yet from that time forward he knew God,