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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.
2 Approving of it, and consenting to it.
3 Because a man may consent to it, either as probable, or as certain and evident knowledge, therefore it is not only an understanding of the truth, but a consenting to it, and that not as a probable thing, but as an undoubted certain truth, Judicium contingentis axiomatis est opinio, necessarii scientia, if it be from the causes, then it is scientia, if by the effects, cognitio.
And thus these Babes know the truth, you understand it, you consent to it, ⟨p. 171⟩you yield to it as a certain and undoubted truth; and that all those concur to knowledge, we may see by Scripture.
And thus these Babes know the truth, you understand it, you consent to it, ⟨p. 171⟩you yeeld to it as a certain and undoubted truth; and that all those concur to knowledge, we may see by Scripture.