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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.
1 In prayer we call God Our Father, and if he be our Father, then all his children are our brethren, and if we do not respect them as our brethren, we renounce God for our Father.
1 In prayer we call God Our Father, and if he be our Father, then all his children are our brethren, and if we doe not respect them as our brethren, we renounce God for our Father.
2 In the same prayer we desire God to forgive us, no further then we have hearts to forgive our brethren; if therefore we will not forgive our Brethren; we are no true professors.
2 In the hearing of the word, we are to come like New born Babes, desiring the sincere milk of the word, and that is, when we come free from all malice and emulation, as babes be, 2 Pet. 2.1, 2. Therefore if a man come to the word with an heart full of envy and emulation, he professeth himself a Christian, but he deceives himself.
2 In the hearing of the word, we are to come like New born Babes, desiring the sincere milk of the word, and that is, when we come free from all malice and emulation, as babes be, 2 Pet. 2.1, 2. Therefore if a man come to the word with an heart full of envy and emulation, he professeth himself a Christian, but he deceives himselfe.