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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
A COMMENTARY UPON The First Epistle general OF JOHN. › Chapter 1 › Verse 5
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 By the stile of the Penmen of it, Evangelists, Bearers of good tidings.
3 By the stile of the first Preachers of it, they were Apostles, Messengers, Rom. 10.15. Tiding-bearers of good things.
1 If the Gospel, or the Apostles Doctrine be a Message, then it hath not its Authority from such as deliver it, for it is not the Messengers part to judge, or ratify his Message, but to bear witness to it, to declare it.