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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 By adding other sacrifices, and so they make his not to be sufficient, and they add two Sacrifices, first, the Sacrifice of merits, and they say they merit, first, by works done, as building of Churches, Monasteries, &c. which they say satisfy for mens sins; and secondly they merit by suffering, as Pilgrimages and Purgatory, and so by indulgences and Pardons.
1 By adding other sacrifices, and so they make his not to be sufficient, and they add two Sacrifices, first, the Sacrifice of merits, and they say they merit, first, by works done, as building of Churches, Monasteries, &c. which they say satisfie for mens sins; and secondly they merit by suffering, as Pilgrimages and Purgatory, and so by indulgences and Pardons.
2 They evacuate the Sacrifice of Christ, by evacuating the Redemption of Christ.
1 By making it not plentiful; whereas the Redemption of Christ is a plenteous redemption both for body and soul, they say he redeems us from eternal pains, but not from temporal, from Purgatory.
1 By making it not plentifull; whereas the Redemption of Christ is a plenteous redemption both for body and soule, they say he redeems us from eternall pains, but not from temporall, from Purgatory.