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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 To believe that Jesus is Christ, is to be persuade that God hath anointed him to be King, Priest and Prophet of his Church; as a Priest to sacrifice himself for us; as a Prophet to direct us, and reveal his will to us; as a King to govern and to rule us.
1 To believe that Jesus is Christ, is to be perswade that God hath anoynted him to be King, Priest and Prophet of his Church; as a Priest to sacrifice himself for us; as a Prophet to direct us, and reveale his will to us; as a King to govern and to rule us.
2 Believing is not only an act of the understanding, for the Devils believe that Christ is the Messiah, that is, that he is Priest, King, and Prophet of his Church, therefore in this believing there is more then a mere persuasion, namely,
2 Believing is not only an act of the understanding, for the Devills believe that Christ is the Messias, that is, that he is Priest, King, and Prophet of his Church, therefore in this believing there is more then a meer perswasion, namely,
1 A particular application to mine own heart, that he is a Priest, King and Prophet to me. And