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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.
Doct. There is no lust in the world, can challenge or claim God for the Author or Fountain of it.
Doct. There is no lust in the world, can challenge or claime God for the Author or Fountaine of it.
He doth not mean the Creatures of the world, but the Lusts of the world; Take it in particular, David when he had committed Adultery, which was a lust of the flesh, 2 Sam. 11.3. this was evil in the sight of the Lord, therefore it was not pleasing to him, he pleased himself, but not God in this; in other ⟨p. 119⟩things he was a man after Gods own heart, in this after his own heart. So what made Joseph abstain from the like sin, but because he considered it would be a great sin against God? so for Covetousness, a lust of the eye, God abhors it, Psal. 10.3. he is so far from loving it, that he hates both it and the covetous man, Isa. 57.17. For the wickedness of his covetousness I was wrath with him; and for pride of life that God hates, Prov. 6.16, 17. it is one of the most loathsome things in the sight of God, 1 Pet. 5.5. [Greek or Hebrew], God wars against a proud man, he sets an army against him, and therefore seeing God hates these, he cannot be the Author or Fountain of them; it is manifest that they spring not from God, for he abhors them, hates them, punishes them,