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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 1 › Verse 4
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.
4 With joy unspeakable and glorious] these words may seem to express some accidental things to this joy, but because the nature of it cannot be well declared in it self, these words shadow out the nature of it, 1 Pet. 1.8. This Joy is.
4 With joy unspeakable and glorious] these words may seem to expresse some accidental things to this joy, but because the nature of it cannot be well declared in it self, these words shadow out the nature of it, 1 Pet. 1.8. This Joy is.
1 Unspeakable, because it is better felt than expressed, Prov. 14.10. like to bodily health. 2 Glorious, both because it is a glimpse of the Glory, and the Joys of Heaven; hence the Spirit that works it, is called The earnest of our inheritance, Ephes. 1.14. and because it triumphs gloriously against all causes of grief and sorrow, Rom. 5.3. Acts 20.23, 24.
1 Unspeakable, because it is better felt than expressed, Prov. 14.10. like to bodily health. 2 Glorious, both because it is a glimps of the Glory, and the Joys of Heaven; hence the Spirit that works it, is called The earnest of our inheritance, Ephes. 1.14. and because it triumphs gloriously against all causes of grief and sorrow, Rom. 5.3