A34689:1882
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.
2 From the fellowship such have with the head Christ, all the true Members receive nourishment from the head, Col. 2.18, 19. therefore they not holding to the head, fall into vain speculations; therefore those that depart from the head, fall from the Church, Ephes. 4.15, 16. and being knit to the head, they are joined with such bands of the spirit, and bands of ordinances, that they all partake of one spirit, 1 Cor. 6.17. so 1 Cor. 12.13. 1 Cor. 10.6, 7. and so in all their prayers, they pray for the whole Church, Our Father, thy Will be done of us, we have a tender care of all the Church knit together in one Love, one Faith, one Hope, one Baptism, so that those that are truly knit, cannot fall off.
2 From the fellowship such have with the head Christ, all the true Members receive nourishment from the head, Col. 2.18, 19. therefore they not holding to the head, fall into vain speculations; therefore those that depart from the head, fall from the Church, Ephes. 4.15, 16. and being knit to the head, they are joyned with such bands of the spirit, and bands of ordinances, that they all partake of one spirit, 1 Cor. 6.17. so 1 Cor. 12.13. 1 Cor. 10.6, 7. and so in all their prayers, they pray for the whole Church, Our Father, thy Will be done of us, we have a tender care of all the Church knit together in one Love, one Faith, one Hope, one Baptisme, so that those that are truly knit, cannot fall off.