A34689:1862
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.
Doct. 1. There are some in the Church, which may depart from the Church.
That may leave the Doctrine, Fellowship, and Practise of the Church, Heb. 10.25. 2 Thes. 2.3. 1 Tim. 2.4.
That may leave the Doctrin, Fellowship, and Practise of the Church, Heb. 10.25. 2 Thes. 2.3. 1 Tim. 2.4.
Q. How comes it to pass that men in the Church, and in some measure affecting the ways of Religion, depart from the Church?
A. 1. This comes from want of through and entire fellowship with the Lord Jesus, for though they may have much joy and comfort in the Members of the Church, yet it is but a Land-flood, all that joy and grace may be dried up, unless they partake of that Fountain which never fails, and as the Lord told Samuel, They have not rejected thee, but me they have rejected; so, see you any departing from the Church, they departed from Christ, and union with him first,