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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
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2 But they say that our Church consists of a mixed multitude, so was that 2 Chron. 20.13. when Jehoshaphat assembled all Judah before the Lord, Num. 11.4 there was a mixed multitude, and they did it out of fear, and yet it was a true Church, and so is ours, though there be a mixed multitude. And yet this falling off, because it is not from the main Doctrine, but from the skirts, and some circumstantials, therefore they do not fall utterly from Christ, but yet it is not possible but they weaken their faith.
2 But they say that our Church consists of a mixt multitude, so was that 2 Chron. 20.13. when Jehosaephat assembled all Judah before the Lord, Num. 11.4 there was a mixt multitude, and they did it out of fear, and yet it was a true Church, and so is ours, though there be a mixt multitude. And yet this falling off, because it is not from the main Doctrine, but from the skirts, and some circumstantials, therefore they doe not fall utterly from Christ, but yet it is not possible but they weaken their faith.
3 This refutes the Anabaptists, that fall off from our Church, because we baptize Infants before they come to knowledge.
1 We say, though there were no Baptism, it were no cause to make it no church as Israel in Egypt without Circumcision.