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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.
Reas. 1. Because this Spirit is an eye-salve to make them understand: by nature we are flow and dull of understanding, but as soon as God hath dropped in some of this Spiritual eye-salve, we strongly see the deep things of God, yea even those which were dull to understand before.
Reas. 1. Because this Spirit is an eye-salve to make them understand: by nature we are flow and dull of understanding, but as soon as God hath dropt in some of this Spiritual eye-salve, we strongly see the deep things of God, yea even those which were dull to understand before.
2 He vouchsafes to them Wisdom, whereby they embrace and approve the truth, as the very truth of Christ, and they have a spirit of faith to believe it, therefore have knowledge of it.
2 He vouchsafes to them Wisdome, whereby they imbrace and approve the truth, as the very truth of Christ, and they have a spirit of faith to believe it, therefore have knowledge of it.
3 He gives them experience, that their hearts do as plainly feel, as their understandings know; nay these Babes, they fetch their understanding from the feeling of their hearts, they know the danger of sin, and the worth of Christ, and this puts them to reach after Christ, and look at him as the most excellent of a thousand, and so they come to find true fellowship with Christ, by putting into them a spirit of peace, 1 Pet. 3.8. so that they know it not only by faith, but by experience, and so they know the truth as it is in Christ; you may have men by hearing and study, come to know very largely of the ways of Grace; the Doctrines and points of Divinity; nay, they may come to approve of them, and may convince an adversary, but yet this is not properly a knowledge of these things, but an understanding of them; a man that wants this Unction may say, he understands these, and believes them, but he cannot say he knows them by any sensible work of God on his own soul.