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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.
2. Confess thy sins to God, lay open thy ways, and set them in order before him, and by this means you will find an unmeasurablenesse of ease, Psal. 32. to 6. he that confesseth his sins shall find mercy, Prov. 28.13. And with this confession add prayer for pardon and healing of thy sins, and God ordinarily will heal such, Hos. 14.3, 4, 5. Job. 33.27, 28.
2. Confesse thy sins to God, lay open thy wayes, and set them in order before him, and by this means you will finde an unmeasurablenesse of ease, Psal. 32. to 6. he that confesseth his sins shall finde mercy, Prov. 28.13. And with this confession adde prayer for pardon and healing of thy sins, and God ordinarily will heal such, Hos. 14.3, 4, 5. Job. 33.27, 28.
3. Use the Ordinances, the Word, the Sacraments, Christian Communion; these are of special use to quiet the afflicted conscience, Isa. 57.19. I create the fruit of the lips, peace, God by the lips of his Ministers, secretly drops sweet balm: and so in the Sacrament, behold the blood of the New Testament shed for thee, for such souls especially, is Christs blood, and for Christian Communion, read