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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.
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.
2 They evacuate this teaching of the Spirit, by making it a conjectural thing, and probable, but not of any certain knowledge, and thus Antichrist denies his Prophetical Office.
2 They evacuate this teaching of the Spirit, by making it a conjecturall thing, and probable, but not of any certain knowledge, and thus Antichrist denies his Prophetical Office.
For the Priestly Office of Christ, which consists, first, in offering sacrifice; secondly, in intercession, for the application of his sacrifice.