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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.
Reas. 1 From the enmity that is in the Creature it self, against the Creator, ever since the fall, there lies this vanity on the Creature, that it empties our souls of Grace, and love to the Creator, and from all Gods ordinances.
Reas. 1 From the enmity that is in the Creature it self, against the Creator, ever since the fall, there lyes this vanity on the Creature, that it emptyes our souls of Grace, and love to the Creator, and from all Gods ordinances.
1 In hearing the word, if it be possible, the world will keep you back; let God propound a Feast of fat things, One makes an excuse he hath hired a Farm, and he must go see it; another hath bought yokes of Oxen, and he must go try them, a third hath married a Wife, and he cannot come. Luk. 14.19, 20
1 In hearing the word, if it be possible, the world will keep you back; let God propound a Feast of fat things, One makes an excuse he hath hyred a Farm, and he must go see it; another hath bought yoaks of Oxen, and he must go try them, a third hath married a Wife, and he cannot come. Luk. 14.19, 20
2 If a man break through this, and come to the ordinances, he shall find that the world is a great enemy to him there, Ezek. 33, 21, 22. his heart is drawn after profits and pleasures, it may be it will make you despise what you hear, as the Pharisees did, they scoffed at Christ, as a poor man himself who had not felt the sweetness of the world; and this is the enmity of the world.