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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
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2 The profit of the Scripture; that Doctrine by which we come to have such comfortable and excellent benefits (such as than which none are greater) must needs be of singular profit and commodity, yea no profit like to this, Mat. 16.26. Hence Psal. 19.10. and therefore we are never to make account we have profited by their Doctrine, when we can speak and discourse of it, but when we have found it to have wrought these heavenly things in us, he that will be conversant in it, to practise it indeed, must labour for these things by it.
2 The profit of the Scripture; that Doctrin by which we come to have such comfortable and excellent benefits (such as than which none are greater) must needs be of singular profit and commodity, yea no profit like to this, Mat. 16.26. Hence Psal. 19.10. and therefore we are never to make account we have profited by their Doctrin, when we can speak and discourse of it, but when we have found it to have wrought these heavenly things in us, he that will be conversant in it, to practise it indeed, must labour for these things by it.
2 And again, if the Word be so profitable, they lose not their labour, who seek it from Sea to Sea, and from East to West, as Amos 8 12. if by seeking they find it, Mat. 15.32. Luke 10. ult. it is no vain gadding humour this desire to hear the Word.