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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
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Use 2. It must teach us, it is not enough to cut off some lusts, but those that we love most; a good husband that hates prodigality, you shall not need to exhort him to frugality; so prodigality cannot endure covetousness, it hates baseness and pinching, he cannot abide it, it is not his own lust; so another he cares not for this pride and bravery, so he may lie close at the pot, or an Harlot; why this is no great matter to cry out against those lusts that are not ours, but it is a Christian duty, not to love our own lusts; covetousness is not thy lust, but if prodigality be thy lust, do not thou cry out against covetousness; and thou which art covetous, do not thou stand out against another mans prodigality, but strive against thy own covetousness; there are lusts which are to us, as Eves apple, fair to the eye, such lusts as our souls lust after, Rev. 18.14. look thou to these lusts which thy soul lusts after, let them depart from thee.
Ʋse 2. It must teach us, it is not enough to cut off some lusts, but those that we love most; a good husband that hates prodigality, you shall not need to exhort him to frugality; so prodigality cannot endure covetousnesse, it hates basenesse and pinching, he cannot abide it, it is not his own lust; so another he cares not for this pride and bravery, so he may ly close at the pot, or an Harlot; why this is no great matter to cry out against those lusts that are not ours, but it is a Christian duty, not to love our own lusts; covetousnesse is not thy lust, but if prodigality be thy lust, doe not thou cry out against covetousnesse; and thou which art covetous, doe not thou stand out against another mans prodigality, but strive against thy own covetousnesse; there are lusts which are to us, as Eves apple, fair to the eye, such lusts as our souls lust after, Rev. 18.14. look thou to these lusts which thy soul lusts after, let them depart from thee.
Use 3. This reproves our aptness to cherish and nourish our own lusts; when we are commanded not to love them, to mortify them, not to make provision for them, if we then provide for them, we are justly to be reproved,