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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 1 › Verse 2
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 JOHN 1.2. For the life appeared, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us.
1 JOHN 1.2. For the life appeared, and we have seen it, and bear witnesse, and shew unto you that eternall life which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us.
This Verse containeth nothing in a manner in it, but what you have mentioned, either in the verse before, or else in the next after it. In it consider, 1. The dependence of it with the former; the words come in by way of answer to an objection.
THis Verse containeth nothing in a manner in it, but what you have mentioned, either in the verse before, or else in the next after it. In it consider, 1. The dependance of it with the former; the words come in by way of answer to an objection.
Obj. If Christ was from the beginning, eternal, God, how then could he be seen, and heard? John 1.18. No man hath seen God at any time.