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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.
The Consectaries, or the Uses are three,
Use 1. Hence then it is easy to discern what estate Natural men be in, out of fellowship with God and his Saints; If by nature we had fellowship with them, what needeth the Apostles Doctrine to bring us unto it, they who defy ⟨p. 21⟩the Devil, and cannot abide to hear that they have had any fellowship with him, have as yet none with God.
Ʋse 1. Hence then it is easie to discern what estate Natural men be in, out of fellowship with God and his Saints; If by nature we had fellowship with them, what needeth the Apostles Doctrin to bring us unto it, they who defie ⟨p. 21⟩the Devil, and cannot abide to hear that they have had any fellowship with him, have as yet none with God.
Use 2 Then fellowship with God and his Saints is a thing that may be attained.
Ʋse 2 Then fellowship with God and his Saints is a thing that may be attained.