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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.
And so Parents and Masters, as you desire to get favour of God for your Children, and Servants, be careful to instruct them in the ways of truth, and for such as have got knowledge, labour to grow up in this Spiritual knowledge, Col. 2.2, 3. Three things did Paul conflict for;
1 That their hearts might be comforted, nothing more useful for a Christian than comfort, but when Christians have got comfort, it is easy for Christians to fit loose one from another, and not to regard one another; therefore,
1 That their hearts might be comforted, nothing more useful for a Christian than comfort, but when Christians have got comfort, it is easie for Christians to fit loose one from another, and not to regard one another; therefore,
2 His conflict was, that they might be knit together in the bond of love.