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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.
Answ. 1. To magnify his power, who was able to persuade the whole World to embrace him and his Doctrine by such weak instruments, 2 Cor. 4.7. Acts 4.33. Acts 4.13.
Answ. 1. To magnifie his power, who was able to perswade the whole World to embrace him and his Doctrin by such weak instruments, 2 Cor. 4.7. Acts 4.33. Acts 4.13.
2. To take away and prevent a slander, which otherwise might have been raised upon the Doctrine of the Gospel, that it had been the device of a mans brain, an human policy devised by great men, to keep the rest in awe, 1 Cor. 2.8. & 6. Many profane Atheists are ready now so to deem, and speak of it as it is, how much more if these had seen great men and Princes embracing it, and setting it forward at first? At the first Satan hindered Religion, by persuading the World that the Professors thereof were enemies to the State, Acts 16.20, 21. but when long experience proved none more faithful, now he goeth about to persuade, that Princes devised it for their own turn.
2. To take away and prevent a slander, which otherwise might have been raised upon the Doctrin of the Gospel, that it had been the device of a mans brain, an human policy devised by great men, to keep the rest in awe,