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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.
2 From the sinful corruption of humane nature; his glorious presence, which is a consuming fire, would consume us. When Isaiah saw God in a similitude, but in a glimpse of his presence, then said he, Isa. 1.5. Woe is me, for I am undone, because I am unclean, he was afraid of his life, though he saw God but in a similitude.
Use 1. To teach us how to understand many places of Scripture, that speak of Gods manifesting himself to any; understand not God the Father, but Jesus Christ assuming a humane body, they saw him face to face, or spake mouth to mouth, or they saw a similitude of God his glorious attributes.
Ʋse 1. To teach us how to understand many places of Scripture, that speak of Gods manifesting himself to any; understand not God the Father, but Jesus Christ assuming a humane body, they saw him face to face, or spake mouth to mouth, or they saw a similitude of God his glorious attributes.
2 Be willing to put off mortal infirmities, so shall we see God face to face, Phil. 1.23. 2 Cor. 12.1, 2, 3, 4, 5.