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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.
The love, of Christians is not to be set on the lusts of the world.
The Holy Ghost dehorts from this by Scriptures that enforce restraint from these lusts, 1 Pet. 2.11. 2 Tim. 2.22. Fly youthful lusts, and St. Peter wishes them to abstain from them, as if they were some deadly poison, that would stain and infect our souls; it implies some great danger, Rom. 13.14. fly from them, make no means to accomplish them.
The Holy Ghost dehorts from this by Scriptures that enforce restraint from these lusts, 1 Pet. 2.11. 2 Tim. 2.22. Fly youthful lusts, and St. Peter wishes them to abstain from them, as if they were some deadly poyson, that would stain and infect our souls; it implies some great danger, Rom. 13.14. fly from them, make no means to accomplish them.
2 There are other words which show more enmity, as mortifying; Col. 3.5. there he calls Lusts the members of the body, implying, there is a body of sin; now this mortifying is a metaphor taken from Chirurgeons, who when they would cut off a Member, they mortify it, by binding it, and hindering the recourse of the blood and and spirits, and so benumb it. Secondly, They apply Corrosives to stupefy it, and then cut it off, lest it fret and kill the whole body; so we ought to mortify our lusts, by restraining and binding our hearts from delight in any pleasure,