A34689:1493
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. Why, all should be weaned from lusts, from the enmity which these lusts have against God, which is a sufficient motive to wean us from the world, Gal. 5.17. if they be enemies to God, then a Christian hath reason to hate them as enemies to his best friend, and indeed he cannot love God, and those lusts too, He that loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him; he is not fit for any duty, he that loves the world cannot accomplish the will of the Father; every lust hinders spiritual duties, hearing of the Word, Prayer, receiving of the Sacrament; any one lust tolerated, or lived in, hinders all Spiritual duties.
Reas. 1. Why, all should be weaned from lusts, from the enmity which these lusts have against God, which is a sufficient motive to weane us from the world, Gal. 5.17. if they be enemies to God, then a Christian hath reason to hate them as enemies to his best friend, and indeed he cannot love God, and those lusts too, He that loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him; he is not fit for any duty, he that loves the world cannot accomplish the will of the Father; every lust hinders spiritual duties, hearing of the Word, Prayer, receiving of the Sacrament; any one lust tolerated, or lived in, hinders all Spirituall duties.
Reas. 2. From the enmity they have against our souls, 1 Pet. 2.11. Dearly beloved, as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts which fight against your souls; they fight against your souls, and so fight, that either you must kill them, or they will kill your souls; either mortify them, or they will mortify your souls; either captivate them, or they will captivate your souls. Therefore seeing they are so contrary to God, and any Spiritual life, and our own souls, as we would not have our lusts hinder our peace with God, and eat out our grace, as we would maintain our communion with God, and the life of our souls, Love not the world, nor the lusts of the world.