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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.
This Doctrine is not delivered in these express terms any where else, but something like is found, John 20.17. I ascend to my Father and your Father. He acknowledgeth his Father to be their Father reconciled in him, and he looks at them as his bre hren, therefore tell my Brethren. He therefore that acknowledgeth God as his father, and bears a child-like love to him, by the same affection is he carried to love his brethren, as those that are begotten of God.
This Doctrine is not delivered in these expresse termes any where else, but something like is found, John 20.17. I ascend to my Father and your Father. He acknowledgeth his Father to be their Father reconciled in him, and he looks at them as his bre hren, therefore tell my Brethren. He therefore that acknowledgeth God as his father, and bears a child-like love to him, by the same affection is he carried to love his brethren, as those that are begotten of God.
Reas. 1. Because he takes them all to be his Brethren. And 2. Because he looks at God as their father as well as his, so that he that looks at God as his Father, and yet respects not his children as his brethren, is a liar; he that loves his Father, loves all his children, because they are his brethren of the same blood, of the same womb.
Reas. 1. Because he takes them all to be his Brethren. And 2. Because he looks at God as their father as well as his, so that he that looks at God as his Father, and yet respects not his children as his brethren, is a lyer; he that loves his Father, loves all his children, because they are his brethren of the same bloud, of the same womb.