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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 2 › Verse 19
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 Apostle, Vers. 18. had instructed Babes of the coming of Antichrist, now in this Verse he first describes them;
THe Apostle, Vers. 18. had instructed Babes of the coming of Antichrist, now in this Verse he first discribes them;
1 By their Apostasy, they went out from us:
1 By their Apostacy, they went out from us:
2 Their condition before, They were not of us, he amplifies both, the latter he proves by an Argument, They were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us.
The former he amplifies by the reason, why God gave them up to Apostasy, which was, that these Seducers might be made manifest that they were not of us.
The former he amplifies by the reason, why God gave them up to Apostacie, which was, that these Seducers might be made manifest that they were not of us.