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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.
God dwells in us, which is more then to have God to dwell with us: if God did but dwell with us, it would argue much happiness; but this is more, for God to dwell in us; We are not only near one another, and branches one of another, but one body with another, he abides in us as the head, we in him as the members.
God dwels in us, which is more then to have God to dwell with us: if God did but dwell with us, it would argue much happinesse; but this is more, for God to dwell in us; We are not onely near one another, and branches one of another, but one body with another, he abides in us as the head, we in him as the members.
Quest. What is this, We know it?
Answ. This act of knowledge is more then an act of faith, men may believe more to be true, then they know, Heb. 11.3. By faith we understand the world was made, faith understands a thing to be done, and so we may be persuaded of the truth of a thing. Something we know by reason, which by sense we cannot know; if it be not evident by sense and reason, we cannot know it; the meaning is, we have evident sense and evident reason for it.
Answ. This act of knowledge is more then an act of faith, men may believe more to be true, then they know, Heb. 11.3. By faith we understand the world was made, faith understands a thing to be done, and so we may be perswaded of the truth of a thing. Something we know by reason, which by sence we cannot know; if it be not evident by sence and reason, we cannot know it; the meaning is, we have evident sence and evident reason for it.