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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. The saving knowledge of him that is from the beginning, of the Ancient of days, or of Jesus Christ, is able to wean even old men from the love of the world.
Doct. The saving knowledge of him that is from the beginning, of the Ancient of dayes, or of Jesus Christ, is able to wean even old men from the love of the world.
To know Christ, and his worth, and our need of him, is a sufficient motive to wean old men from the world.
Two things there were which made wise, ancient, cautelous men, not to embrace Christ, and his Gospel.
1. The antiquity of the Heathenish Religion; Jesus Christ seemed a new God, but of two or three and thirty years, hated of all men, and Crucified, now to commend such a God to them against their ancient Doctrine, and that all must subject themselves to him, seemed strange.
1. The antiquity of the Heathenish Religion; Jesus Christ seemed a new God, but of two or three and thirty years, hated of all men, and Crucified, now to commend such a God to them against their ancient Doctrin, and that all must subject themselves to him, seemed strange.