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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
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.
Doct. That the spirit of Antichrist was come into the world in St. Johns time, and as in St. Johns time, so in St. Pauls time also:
He speaks of the mystery of Iniquity, that Antichrist did work in his time, 2 Thess. 2.7.
There are three things in the body of Popery:
1. A spirit breathing in it's doctrine, worship, and discipline; the same was visible in the Apostles time.
1. For the doctrine, there was a spirit of error in their foundation, and wrought mightily at that time in their hearts, so that men durst not trust the grace of Christ, a if there were not safe holding upon naked Christ; but the Apostle doth utterly inveigh against such,