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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.
Doct. That such as love one another, to them God hath given of his Spirit.
What is meant by this, that God hath given us of his Spirit?
1 It implies that God hath given us that spirit of grace that accompanies salvation; this branch of that spirit that dwelleth in God, Numb. 11.25. Moses spirit was not diminished, though God did communicate it to the seventy Elders, God did cause it to be enlarged in them, that were in the place of Magistracy with him; so who so loves, dwells in God, and the same spirit of love do they communicate to their brethren, so that they walk by the ⟨p. 310⟩same rule, and aim at the same end. The fruit of the Spirit is love, Gal. 5.27. But the works of the flesh are adultery, &c. They that walk in love, have received of the Spirit; they have received of the Spirit of the holy Ghost, for the Spirit lusts against envy, Judg. 9.22, 23.
1 It implies that God hath given us that spirit of grace that accompanies salvation; this branch of that spirit that dwelleth in God,