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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 4 › Verse 11
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1 JOHN 4.11. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
This is the conclusion of the argument, stirring up to the love of one another; here heaven and earth meet as it were in one exhortation.
Doct. Such love of God to us, is a president and pattern of like love in us to our Brethren.
How did God so love us?
So as is described in the two former verses, set forth to be 1. a manifest love, vers. 9. Gal. 4.4