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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.
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, 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 Righteousnesse, we did not one living action but sinfull; so now being dead to sin, let us doe no li•ing action but righteous.
Secondly, We are no longer to live unto friends, to riches, honours, or pleasures, but to the Lord; we once were wedded to such things, but now being dead, we are free from them, Rom. 7.1, 2. if these call for any motion ⟨p. 10⟩or action of a living man at our hands, not agreeable to the Will of Christ, we are dead; hence Wives are to obey their Husbands in the Lord, Col. 3.18. and Children their Parents, Ephes. 6.1. and Servants their Masters,