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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
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.
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.
2 The lusts of the World are not of God, but of the World, verse 16.
3 The third reason, why we should not love the World, and the lusts thereof, is from their nature and original, they are not permanent, but pass away.
3 The third reason, why we should not love the World, and the lusts thereof, is from their nature and original, they are not permanent, but passe away.