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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…

Name: A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…
Author: John Cotton

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 ...

John Cotton 1584–1652London: printed by M.S. for Thomas Parkhurst, 1658

[9], 431 [i.e. 423], [7] p. · 297k words · Wing C6452 · ESTC R5113

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A COMMENTARY UPON The First Epistle general OF JOHN. › Chapter 1 › Verse 2

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.

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True it is, that Christ was made manifest before the Apostles time unto the Patriarchs, and that three ways.

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1. By Apparition, in the similitude and shape of flesh, Gen. 18.17. and there he is called Jehovah, and he afterwards prayed unto him, Gen. 27.25. to Hagar, Gen. 16.7.13. to Jacob, to Moses, Exod. 3.2.4.6. to whom Moses prayed, Deut. 33.16.

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2. By Preaching, Gen. 3.15.

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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…

Doct. 1. He who was from the beginning with the Father eternal living God, became in the fullness of time truly man.

Doct. 1. He who was from the beginning with the Father eternall living God, became in the fulnesse of time truly man.

Doct. 2. The Incarnation of Christ, and his conversation in the World, was the manifestation of him to the Apostles and Church of God.

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Doct. 1. He who was from the beginning with the Father eternal living God, became in the fullness of time truly man.

Doct. 1. He who was from the beginning with the Father eternall living God, became in the fulnesse of time truly man.

Doct. 2. The Incarnation of Christ, and his conversation in the World, was the manifestation of him to the Apostles and Church of God.