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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.
2. These are corporal, and feed the body only, in the midst of these the soul is blind, carnal, foolish; these are disproportionable to the nature of it, and therefore cannot strengthen it.
2. These are corporall, and feed the body onely, in the midst of these the soul is blind, carnall, foolish; these are disproportionable to the nature of it, and therefore cannot strengthen it.
3. They are not of the Father, and therefore lead us not to the Father; a man cannot work above the sphere of his calling, so give up your hearts to these, and you will never reach higher.
3. They are not of the Father, and therefore lead us not to the Father; a man cannot work above the sphear of his calling, so give up your hearts to these, and you will never reach higher.
Use. 1. Shows, we may conform to the civill customs of the World, the Holy Ghost doth not forbid those, 1 Cor. 9.20, 21, 22. Paul became all things to all men, so that in pretence of mortification we must not fill our spirits with morosity and rustical rudeness, good manners, and civill respects, stand well with Christianity.
Ʋse. 1. Shews, we may conform to the civill customes of the World, the Holy Ghost doth not forbid those, 1 Cor. 9.20, 21, 22. Paul became all things to all men, so that in pretence of mortification we must not fill our spirits with morosity and rusticall rudenesse, good manners, and civill respects, stand well with Christianity.