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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.
Use 1. If Christ be a word of life, then men out of Christ have no life in them, they have neither the life of justification, nor mortification, nor vivification, nor resurrection to glory, but are stark dead men to grace and glory.
Ʋse 1. If Christ be a word of life, then men out of Christ have no life in them, they have neither the life of justification, nor mortification, nor vivification, nor resurrection to glory, but are stark dead men to grace and glory.
2. If Christ be a word of life, then we who profess our selves to be Christians, to be Members of Christ, are to live no life but this; now for the better conceiving of this, know that we live a threefold life, 1. Natural, 2. Spiritual, 3. Carnal; whereby we live the life, 1 Of Reason, 2 Grace 3 Sin.
2. If Christ be a word of life, then we who professe our selves to be Christians, to be Members of Christ, are to live no life but this; now for the better conceiving of this, know that we live a threefold life, 1. Naturall, 2. Spirituall, 3. Carnall; whereby we live the life, 1 Of Reason, 2 Grace 3 Sin.
The two former we may live, and are so to do, because we receive both these lives from Christ the word of life; the last we are not to live, for the Members can live no life but the life of their head, the branches live no life but the life of the root; Hence Paul lived not, but Christ in him, Gal. 2.20. Now that we may do this, we must esteem and carry our selves as dead men to all things else; that we may wholly live, and move, and have our being to him: and from hence arise three duties.