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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.
First, To the outward man.
1. Because his Divine Person before that time invisible and sensible, by his incarnation became sensible and palpable, John 1.18.
2. Because that person, though before he was known to the Church of God, yet but obscurely.
Secondly, It was the manifestation of him to the inward man; for though they knew him to be God, Psal. 110.1. mark our Saviours urging that place, Mat. 22 44, 45. and Man, Gen. 3.15. to be of his Church, the King, Psal. 2.8 9