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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 3, 4
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 Supreme, fullness of joy.
2 Supream, fulnesse of joy.
The subject is repeated,
1. For Explication or plainness sake, for the Parenthesis of the second verse would otherwise, by interrupting the course of speech, have obscured the sentence.
2. For confirmation of what he had said before, he thrice repeateth, that which we have seen, and doubleth, that which we have heard, to show, that he doubted not of what he spake, but was most confident and resolute therein.
2. For confirmation of what he had said before, he thrice repeateth, that which we have seen, and doubleth, that which we have heard, to shew, that he doubted not of what he spake, but was most confident and resolute therein.