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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 16
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1 JOHN 2.16. For all that is in the World, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the World.
IN the former ver. the Apostle dissuaded both old and young from the love of the World, and the things of the World, that is, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life.
IN the former ver. the Apostle diswaded both old and young from the love of the World, and the things of the World, that is, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life.
And he dissuades them from this, from a threefold reason.
And he diswades them from this, from a threefold reason.
1 Love not the World, for it evacuates the love of God in us, verse 13. latter end.