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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 1 › Verse 2
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.
Proposit. 1. Christ is life eternal.
Proposit. 1. Christ is life eternall.
Life] Therefore called the word of Life, v. 1. hence also, John 14.6. though ⟨p. 11⟩life there is not taken so largely as here, There the meaning is, I am the true and right way to eternal life, as appeareth by that which goeth before, from verse 2. to 6. and the reason following verse 6. Here it is taken for him who liveth in himself, and is the Fountain and Author of all life to us, whether of Nature, or Grace, or Glory. Eternal life] 1 John 5.20. and he is so called, because,
Life] Therefore called the word of Life, v. 1. hence also, John 14.6. though ⟨p. 11⟩life there is not taken so largely as here, There the meaning is, I am the true and right way to eternall life, as appeareth by that which goeth before, from verse 2. to 6. and the reason following verse 6. Here it is taken for him who liveth in himselfe, and is the Fountain and Author of all life to us, whether of Nature, or Grace, or Glory. Eternall life] 1 John 5.20. and he is so called, because,