A34689:1915
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.
3 The church was not then in Congregations, but in Families, &c.
Obj. But what say you to the Ten Tribes, did not they renounce fellowship with the Church? 2 King. 12.16.
A. Herein they did reject the Covenant of Grace, and so had no fellowship with the church.
Obj. Were there no good people there?
A. The good people of the Land left their possessions and went to Jerusalem, with the Priests and Levites, 2 Chron. 11.13