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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.
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, Dan. 3.17, 18. The grace of a Christian is the lively confessing of Christ.
1 If I confesse Christ to be the Son of God; I doe not only take him to be my Saviour, but to be my Lord and Governour, 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 Crosse of Christ, but answer as did the three children, Dan. 3.17, 18. The grace of a Christian is the lively confessing of Christ.
Reas. These may be all, as so many reasons of the point another reason may be this, flesh and blood cannot believe it, and confess it,