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…

1 For the perfection of the Scripture; for if the Apostles declared what they had heard and seen, to the end that we might have fellowship with God and them, and fullness of joy, then either they failed of their end, or else we by their Doctrine (written for that purpose, verse 4) may have all things necessary for salvation, yea what is salvation it self, but these very ends? Our Saviour calls it (which was a good conclusion of the whole Bible, for the Gospel was written last of all, to stop the mouths of Ebion, Corinthus, &c. who then began to urge the traditions of the Apostles in time of his banishment, see Eusebius) eternal life, to know him, and what more comfortable knowledge of him than this? Joh. 17.3. hence also John 20. 2 last. 2 Tim. 3. 2 last; away then with Popish traditions which the Papists allege, they are either false Doctrines, as invocations of Saints images, transubstantiation, &c. or certainly true, as Baptism of infants, truth of Scripture, &c. and these may be proved by Scripture; or such as seem not necessarily to procure us Fellowship with the Saints, as the perpetual Virginity of the Virgin Mary, whether the Hebrew women's children had any Sacrament to initiate them into the Church, and yet the Papists else where prove all these by Scripture.

1 For the perfection of the Scripture; for if the Apostles declared what they had heard and seen, to the end that we might have fellowship with God and them, and fulnesse of joy, then either they failed of their end, or else wee by their Doctrine (written for that purpose, verse 4) may have all things necessary for salvation, yea what is salvation it selfe, but these very ends? Our Saviour calls it (which was a good conclusion of the whole Bible, for the Gospel was written last of all, to stop the mouths of Ebion, Corinthus, &c. who then began to urge the traditions of the Apostles in time of his banishment, see Eusebius) eternal life, to know him, and what more comfortable knowledge of him than this? Joh. 17.3. hence also John 20. 2 last.