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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
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The second is a penitential confessing, when Peter had convinced the Jews, that Jesus was the Lord, they were pricked in their harts, Acts 2.26, 37. For a man to confess that he is the Lord, and never to be troubled that he doth afflict him, nor never look for salvation by him, there is no truth, no heartiness in that confession, but when the heart is humbled for all the wrong it hath done to Christ, this is an evidence of hearty confession.
The second is a penitential confessing, when Peter had convinced the Jews, that Jesus was the Lord, they were pricked in their harts, Acts 2.26, 37. For a man to confesse that he is the Lord, and never to be troubled that he doth afflict him, nor never look for salvation by him, there is no truth, no heartinesse in that confession, but when the heart is humbled for all the wrong it hath done to Christ, this is an evidence of hearty confession.
In the confession of our life there are two parts.
1 If I confess Christ to be the Son of God; I do not only take him to be my Saviour, but to be my Lord and Governor, 2 Cor. 10.4, 5. Heb. 5.9. we obey Christ in thoughts, in speeches affections and conversations. 1 Pet. 3.14.2. When we suffer as Christians, and are not ashamed of the Cross of Christ, but answer as did the three children,