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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.
This is the Major, the Minor was before, they must be weaned from all things that look not at God as the Fountain and end.
1. We may make use of the Creatures, they were made for our sakes; God put all into mans hand, Psal. 8.6. Nehem. 12.10. Eat the fat, and drink the sweet, 1 Chron. 29.12. Riches and Honour come from thee, 2 Cor. 1.3. He is the God of all comfort, Eccl. 9.7, 8, 9 Live joyfully with the wife of thy youth. God would have us to live comfortably in the World, and use all the lawful comforts of it, we shall need them all against the discouragements of the World; but may we conform to the civill customs of the World, common to good and bad? there is a lawful use of the civill customs, Phil. 4.8. If any thing be of good report, think on these things; these words contain civill customs in mens commerce.
1. We may make use of the Creatures, they were made for our sakes; God put all into mans hand, Psal. 8.6. Nehem. 12.10. Eat the fat, and drink the sweet, 1 Chron. 29.12. Riches and Honour come from thee, 2 Cor. 1.3. He is the God of all comfort,