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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
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Answ. 1. They are of God, because they are of a divine Original, they are born from on high, from the seed of the eternal God, John 8.23. I am from above, saith Christ; and such are those that are regenerate, they are descended from God: whereas those that have no higher off-spring then flesh and blood are of the world.
Answ. 1. They are of God, because they are of a divine Originall, they are born from on high, from the seed of the eternall God, John 8.23. I am from above, saith Christ; and such are those that are regenerate, they are descended from God: whereas those that have no higher off-spring then flesh and blood are of the world.
2. They both savour and relish that doctrine, Rom. 8.15. They that are of the Spirit of God, savour the things of God, such as hold forth the mighty power of God veiled in humane frailties, they are of God.
3. He that is of God, hath a place in the Church of God, 1 Cor. 12.28. God sets the members of Christ in the Church, this is a work of God, ver. 18. not any member of Christ, but the Lord hath set him in that place, as all men in the world cannot fit one member to the body, but it would be both unprofitable and burdensome, except God join it to the body; so all the men in the world cannot put one member into the spiritual body, except God put it in; indeed those that are of the world, they have a place in the Church too, but yet they are not of the Church, they are superfluous humours, as Christ speaks of the Pharisees, Mat, 15.13. As it is never well with the body till the noisome humours be purged out, so the Church will never be well till those superfluous humours are cut off.