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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.
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.
The two former we may live, and are so to doe, 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 doe 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.
First, We are not to live to our old sins at all, but to be as dead men to them, Rom. 6.11. and therefore to have no Member to stir at their command, Rom. 6.13. old lusts when they now call upon us, we are to lend the deaf Ear to them; when we were dead to Righteousness, we did not one living action but sinful; so now being dead to sin, let us do no li•ing action but righteous.
First, We are not to live to our old sins at all, but to be as dead men to them, Rom. 6.11. and therefore to have no Member to stir at their command,