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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 15
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.
A. Love is such an affection of the heart, whereby a man affects communion with the Creature, and communion of good to it, as the love of Money, is when we love it for it self. This love is double; 1 Amor concupiscentiae, when a man covets the thing for the thing it self, for the gain of it. 2 Amor amicitiae, which is, when I not only desire communion with it, but communication of good to it.
The first is chiefly here forbidden, when I affect the World, or the things of the World for themselves, for its own sake, and not for Gods, that it may be a furtherance to Gods service, when we love the world rather than God, when we desire it though we be without God, and rejoice in it for it self; this is the love of the world here forbidden.
The first is chiefly here forbidden, when I affect the World, or the things of the World for themselves, for its own sake, and not for Gods, that it may be a furtherance to Gods service, when we love the world rather than God, when we desire it though we be without God, and rejoyce in it for it self; this is the love of the world here forbidden.
Q. What is meant by the things of the World?