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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.
3 A loving soul takes Gods dealing in this kind in very good part, as being a notable preservative against many sinful distempers he should have fallen into; by these anguishes, he drives me from the world, and putting off GOD for after-times: this makes us seek God speedily, there is no man, when grace knocks at his heart, that quite rejects the motion, but defers it; but these tormenting fears are like hooks in a fishes belly, they draw us to God presently.
3 A loving soule takes Gods dealing in this kind in very good part, as being a notable preservative against many sinful distempers he should have fallen into; by these anguishes, he drives me from the world, and putting off GOD for after-times: this makes us seek God speedily, there is no man, when grace knocks at his heart, that quite rejects the motion, but defers it; but these tormenting fears are like hooks in a fishes belly, they draw us to God presently.
4 The soul takes it in good part, in that by these fears of conscience, he is brought better to attend on Sermons, to be conversant in the Scripture more, to like good company better; This though it quite casts not out tormenting fear; yet it makes all to be taken in good part, for that the soul hereby grows more meek and lowly, and by this means he begins to find rest to his soul; When a man begins to take Christs yoke and bear it patiently, and learn of him to be meek and lowly, he finds rest to his soul, then he is not in torment.
4 The soule takes it in good part, in that by these fears of conscience, he is brought better to attend on Sermons, to be conversant in the Scripture more, to like good company better; This though it quite casts not out tormenting feare; yet it makes all to be taken in good part, for that the soule hereby grows more meek and lowly, and by this means he begins to find rest to his soule; When a man begins to take Christs yoke and beare it patiently, and learn of him to be meek and lowly, he finds rest to his soul, then he is not in torment.