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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.
1. By Considering our own Estates, and the misery thereof, which caused him to take upon him the form of a servant.
2. By Considering his example, who took upon him the form of a servant, to be serviceable to us; so ought we to abase our selves to be serviceable to our Brethren.
Secondly, To stir us up to labour to be united to his nature, as he was to ours, 2 Pet. 1.4. he became the son of man, that we might become the sons of God; we cannot answer the intent of his incarnation better.
Secondly, To stir us up to labor to be united to his nature, as he was to ours, 2 Pet. 1.4. he became the son of man, that we might become the sons of God; we cannot answer the intent of his incarnation better.
Thirdly, To move us to an holy thankfulness and joyfulness in the Lord, as 1. Zechariah blessed the Lord in this behalf,