A34689:1793
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.
1 In opposition to former ages which were far off.
2 In Gods account a thousand years are but as one day, 2 Pet, 3.8, 9. yet God will come so, that when the day of accomplishment is come, he will not stay a day longer, for that were as much to him as a thousand years.
3 Such is the Faith of many christians, that what they see in a promise, it is as much as if it were presently fulfilled, Joh. 8.36.
Use 1. If this time of the Gospel, he the last time, then hence we may certainly conclude, that not so much time by much, shall pass from Christ to the end of the World, as was from Adam to Christ, for then how can they be called the last times? and if it were the last time then, what is it now?