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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.
Herein is love, John 3.16. God so loved the world, implying there was a love of God that moved him to send Christ before we did believe, that believing on him, we might have mercy and salvation: Love is said to be free in two respects.
1 When love is granted, without nny desert on their parts to whom it is granted, and then it is so much the greater, when there is no fitness of the persons that receive it, but, rather the contrary; if men shall deserve our love, our love is not free; Gods love is so free as that he sent his Son into the world to redeem us, when we did not deserve it, but rather wrath Col. 1.21.
1 When love is granted, without nny desert on their parts to whom it is granted, and then it is so much the greater, when there is no fitnesse of the persons that receive it, but, rather the contrary; if men shall deserve our love, our love is not free; Gods love is so free as that he sent his Son into the world to redeem us, when we did not deserve it, but rather wrath Col. 1.21.
2 Love is said to be free, when it is without condition, so that nothing on our parts, shall take away his love, Jer. 31.34. He will not remember their sins any more.