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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.
2 When he saith, the Word of God, it implies, that they receive it as the Word of God, and not as the word of man, 1 Thes. 2.13. and a man then receives the Word, as the Word of God, when he looks at the Commandments, as Gods Commandments, and so the Promises and Threatenings as Gods, he looks at them as of highest authority, so as no word of man shall stand against it, all falls to the ground before it; it sways all.
2 When he saith, the Word of God, it implyes, that they receive it as the Word of God, and not as the word of man, 1 Thes. 2.13. and a man then receives the Word, as the Word of God, when he looks at the Commandments, as Gods Commandments, and so the Promises and Threatnings as Gods, he looks at them as of highest authority, so as no word of man shall stand against it, all falls to the ground before it; it swayes all.
3 When he saith, the Word abideth, it implies, that this Word did not only flash in suddenly, and continued for a time, but it abideth in them continually, Joh. 5.35. Heb. 2.1, 2.
3 When he saith, the Word abideth, it implyes, that this Word did not only flash in suddenly, and continued for a time, but it abideth in them continually, Joh. 5.35. Heb. 2.1, 2.