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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.
it is one of these lusts that hath damped thy comfort and enlargement, because thou canst not find so much comfort and enlargement, thou growest discontent, this is from pride, or sometimes we are so carried to our profits or pleasures, that it damps our grace in us.
it is one of these lusts that hath damped thy comfort and enlargement, because thou canst not finde so much comfort and enlargement, thou growest discontent, this is from pride, or sometimes we are so carried to our profits or pleasures, that it damps our grace in us.
Use 3. May exhort us to humiliation when we find all these lusts working in our hearts, because he that is addicted to pride may be given to the world too, and look to pleasure, and many sensual objects, this should unfeignedly humble us, that such a mass of sin should be in us, that not one sin of the world but is in our hearts: so that when St. James calls the tongue a world of iniquity, Jam. 3.6. what a world of mischief is in our hearts, when there is no sin in the world but is in our hearts? What is the reason why men are so vexed if they be hindered from their credit, or honour? it is from pride, if they be cast in their profits and pleasures, it is from the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eye; therefore do not say, I find no great power in my self to abstain from such and such sins, but I have a good heart to God: alas, there is no lust but is found in thy heart, all that is in the world is in thee.
Ʋse 3. May exhort us to humiliation when we finde all these lusts working in our hearts, because he that is addicted to pride may be given to the world too, and look to pleasure, and many sensual objects, this should unfeignedly humble us, that such a masse of sin should be in us, that not one sin of the world but is in our hearts: so that when St. James calls the tongue a world of iniquity, Jam. 3.6. what a world of mischiefe is in our hearts, when there is no sin in the world but is in our hearts? What is the reason why men are so vexed if they be hindered from their credit, or honour? it is from pride, if they be cast in their profits and pleasures, it is from the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eye; therefore do not say, I finde no great power in my selfe to abstain from such and such sins, but I have a good heart to God: alas, there is no lust but is found in thy heart, all that is in the world is in thee.