A34689:1658
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.
By the lust of the Eye is meant Covetousness, or inordinate desire of profit.
By the lust of the Eye is meant Covetousnesse, or inordinate desire of profit.
1 Because the Eye makes us covet it, as Achan, Josh. 7.21.
2 Because the eye in some measure is glutted with the sight of it.
Obj. Why doth he not speak of lusts of the Ear? for 2 Tim. 2.4. there is an ⟨p. 132⟩itching Ear; thus the Athenians, Acts 17 21, and so some have a strong affection to Music, and never well without it; this is a lust of the Ear, and why is not this reckoned as well as the lust of the eye?