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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.
1 The perniciousness of it; It is a pernicious Lye, to speak against the Government of an house or Family, or good of others, but no lye so pernicious as Popish Lies, none do so much harm as the Lies of Antichristian Teachers, they lye not only against their own souls, but also to the hurt of others, 1 Pet. 3.2, 3. they shall bring in damnable Heresies, such Doctrines that if men live and dye in them, they shall be damned, and many shall follow their pernicious ways, and so they sell the souls of men, and so one part of the merchandise of the Romish Whore is the souls of men, Rev. 8.12, 13. and therefore if any pernicious Liars, who more pernicious than they that lye against the souls and salvation of men? no greater Cheaters than to cheat us of our Saviour, of our Father, of Salvation.
1 The perniciousnesse of it; It is a pernicious Lye, to speake against the Government of an house or Family, or good of others, but no lye so pernicious as Popish Lyes, none doe so much harm as the Lyes of Antichristian Teachers, they lye not only against their own souls, but also to the hurt of others, 1 Pet. 3.2, 3. they shall bring in damnable Heresies, such Doctrins that if men live and dye in them, they shall be damned, and many shall follow their pernicious wayes, and so they sell the souls of men, and so one part of the merchandize of the Romish Whore is the souls of men, Rev. 8.12, 13. and therefore if any pernicious Lyers, who more pernicious than they that lye against the souls and salvation of men? no greater Cheaters than to cheat us of our Saviour, of our Father, of Salvation.
2 The evident falsehood of them, A man lies when he mistakes the truth which he might easily see, or though it were more hard to see; but if a man know it to be false and pernicious, yet to lye against his knowledge and Conscience, this makes the Lye palpable and gross; now these Lies are not only contrary to the truth of the Word, and experience of Christians, but also contrary to their own knowledge and Conscience, and they must needs be gross Liars that lye in such weighty matters as Salvation, and that so evidently that he that runs may see their falsehood.