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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.
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. the Priest, Psal. 110.4. Dan. 9.17. the Prophet, Deut. 18.18. John 4.25. yet how these things should be, they knew not, Luke 1.24. hence Luke 10.22, 23, 24. though they knew his benefits before, yet but obscurely, and darkly, as wrapped up in a shadow, 2 Cor. 3.13. as things seen afar off, Heb. 11.13. but now are brought to light by his incarnation, and coming into the World, 2 Tim. 1.10.