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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
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.
For the Reasons of the Point.
Reas. 1. From the object of their Knowledge, and in him all things needful; 2 Cor. 2.2. in Christ they have enough, Col. 2.9, 10. therefore having got Christ, will he not give you all other things needful? since God hath given us Christ, ⟨p. 167⟩our head understands all things, and the head will be sure to guide the foot, when it hath need to go.
2 From the excellency of their Teacher, John 6.45. thy Children shall be [Greek or Hebrew], Isa. 48.17. and if God undertake to teach us to profit he is able to do more than any other teachers; they may teach, but they cannot give a dullard wit, but God can open our understandings, and enlarge our hearts with wisdom, so that he will clear the object, the Medium and the faculty, Psal 119.13. I have more understanding then my teachers, so vers. 97.
2 From the excellency of their Teacher, John 6.45. thy Children shall be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Isa. 48.17. and if God undertake to teach us to profit he is able to do more than any other teachers; they may teach, but they cannot give a dullard wit, but God can open our understandlngs, and enlarge our hearts with wisdom, so that he will clear the object, the Medium and the faculty, Psal 119.13. I have more understanding then my teachers, so vers. 97.