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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 Explication.
Q. 1. What is the truth?
A. The truth might be taken for the Lord Jesus Christ, and he is not to be excluded, but he is not principally meant here, John 15.6. and it is true, that they know Christ that have received this Unction, John 6.69.
A. The truth might be taken for the Lord Jesus Christ, and he is not to be excluded, but he is not principally meant here, Jhon 15.6. and it is true, that they know Christ that have received this Unction, John 6.69.
But here by the truth is meant the Doctrine. of the Gospel, Ephes. 4.21. which is called the truth in Jesus, that truth which teacheth us to find Christ, to prize Christ, and you know it in a special manner, as it is in Jesus in a Crucified manner, you know it as it is in Jesus which raiseth you from death to life; it is sometimes called the word of truth,