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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.
3 By denying the use of the Scripture to the common people, and telling them, it is obscure and dangerous for them.
4 By suspending the authority of his Word, not upon the Testimony of his Spirit, but on the Church of Rome; so that if you ask a Papist, why they receive the Gospel of St. Matthew, and deny that of St. John, they say, because the Church hath received the one, and renounced the other; and so they make the Scripture to depend on general councils, especially on the Pope.
2 The Lord teacheth his Church by his Spirit, which they evacuate.
1 By confining this Spirit to councils, and Clergy-men, and not to the common people.