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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.
Doct. No lye, that is, no heretical Antichristian Doctrine, is of the truth▪
Doct. No lye, that is, no hereticall Antichristian Doctrin, is of the truth▪
Out of false things we may sometimes conclude falsehood, and sometimes truth, but out of a true principle, you can never gather falsehood; so St. John here out of the truth you cannot conclude any lye, any false Doctrine; so that no lye is of the truth.
Out of false things we may sometimes conclude falshood, and sometimes truth, but out of a true principle, you can never gather falshood; so St. John here out of the truth you cannot conclude any lye, any false Doctrin; so that no lye is of the truth.
For Explication.
A Doctrine may be said to be of the truth, or not of it, in a double respect.
A Doctrin may be sid to bee of the truth, or not of it, in a double respect.