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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.
1 I call it [a Spiritual Conjunction,] to distinguish it from,
1 A Natural, as the three Persons of the Trinity are joined in one nature and essence.
1 A Natural, as the three Persons of the Trinity are joyned in one nature and essence.
2 Personal, as the two Natures of Christ are in one Person.
3 Moral, as Man and Wife are in Law one flesh by Gods Ordinance.
For this is a Conjunction of mens Persons, not by an outward bond (such as Gods Ordinance is to Marriage) but by an inward bond, one Spirit resting in Christ above measure, and in the Saints according to their measure,