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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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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, Psal. 16.3. for that whole Psalm is meant of him, or of the whole Church, but principally of him; O where are our hearts, that they can delight no more in him? our fool sh hearts can delight in any thing more than him.
Ʋse 3. If Christ was with the Father, in whose presence is fulnesse 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, Psal. 16.3. for that whole Psalm is meant of him, or of the whole Church, but principally of him; O where are our hearts, that they can delight no more in him? our fool sh hearts can delight in any thing more than him.