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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
A COMMENTARY UPON The First Epistle general OF JOHN. › Chapter 2 › Verse 17
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1 JOH. 2.17. And the world passeth away, and the lusts thereof, but he that doth the Will of God abideth for ever.
TO dissuade them from the love of the World, and the Lusts of it, the Apostle useth three Arguments; 1 Vers. 15. 2 Vers. 16. 3 From the contrary disposition of them that love the World, and them that keep the Word: as if he should say, That which is eternal ought not to addict it self to transitory things, but you that have your sins forgiven, &c. are so, Ergo. So then this third Argument is taken from the frailty and fickleness of all these outward things, and the constancy and perpetuity of heavenly things, therefore be weaned from the one, and affect the other. By the World is meant all the Creatures, all the fashions and courses of the World: the condition thereof, Honour, Credit, Profit, Pleasure, all these pass away.
TO disswade them from the love of the World, and the Lusts of it, the Apostle useth three Arguments; 1 Vers. 15. 2 Vers. 16. 3 From the contrary disposition of them that love the World, and them that keep the Word: as if he should say, That which is eternal ought not to addict it self to transitory things, but you that have your sins forgiven, &c. are so, Ergo. So then this third Argument is taken from the frailty and ficklenesse of all these outward things, and the constancy and perpetuity of heavenly things, therefore be weaned from the one, and affect the other. By the World is meant all the Creatures, all the fashions and courses of the World: the condition thereof, Honour, Credit, Profit, Pleasure, all these passe away.