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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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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, 1 Cor. 6.17. 1 Joh. 4.13. Rom. 8.9. Hence it is that the same mind is in us which was in Christ, Phil. 2.5. and all the members are alike affected, and disposed towards God, Christ, their own sins, good duties, one to another.
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, 1 Cor. 6.17. 1 Joh. 4.13. Rom. 8.9. Hence it is that the same minde is in us which was in Christ, Phil. 2.5. and all the members are alike affected, and disposed towards God, Christ, their own sins, good duties, one to another.
2 I say [of the Saints with Christ, and one another] where by Saints I do not mean only Saints Canonized by the Pope, nor only the Saints departed, but the Saints also on earth, whose conjunction with Christ, and one with another, is mentioned, 2 Cor. 1.2. Col. 1