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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.
So as is described in the two former verses, set forth to be 1. a manifest love, vers. 9. Gal. 4.4
2 A bountiful and large love, he spared not his Son, he sent him out of his bosom into the world: a man will not send his Son into an ill air.
2 A bountifull and large love, he spared not his Son, he sent him out of his bosome into the world: a man will not send his Son into an ill air.
3 When we loved not God, when we were enemies and strangers, he cast about how he might by sending his Son reconcile us to himself: this is free gracious love; so we should love one another, in manifest, bountiful, gracious love: see some Scripture pressing this president, Ephes. 5.1, 2. if he hath so loved us, as he hath given himself an offering of a sweet savour, the more good offices should we do to Gods people, expose our selves to in jury for them, Ephes. 4.32.
3 When we loved not God, when we were enemies and strangers, he cast about how he might by sending his Son reconcile us to himselfe: this is free gracious love; so we should love one another, in manifest, bountifull, gracious love: see some Scripture pressing this president, Ephes. 5.1, 2. if he hath so loved us, as he hath given himselfe an offering of a sweet savour, the more good offices should we doe to Gods people, expose our selves to in jury for them,