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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
A COMMENTARY UPON The First Epistle general OF JOHN. › Chapter 1 › Verse 2
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Obj. If the World be but five thousand and odd years old, what did God so many years before?
Obj. If the World be but five thousand and odde years old, what did God so many years before?
Ans. 1. They nourished, delighted, and solaced each other.
2. God ordained Christ to be a nourisher, and solacer of his Church, 1 Pet. 1.20. compared with places above mentioned.
Use 3. If Christ was with the Father, in whose presence is fullness of joy, and pleasure for evermore, as Psal. 16. ult. then how unspeakable was the love of Christ to such wretches as we are, who for our sakes would leave his Father, to take part of our miseries, that we might be partakers of his pleasures? Would a man think that he whose delight was so unspeakable and glorious with his Father, would say that which he doth,