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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.
Doct. The faith that overcomes the world, is faith in the divinity and Sonship of Christ.
Doct. THe faith that overcomes the world, is faith in the divinity and Sonship of Christ.
Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
When Peter had made that profession of his faith, Thou art the Christ the Son of the living God; what saith Christ to this? Blessed art thou Simon, &c. Mat. 16.16, 17, 18. This confession made Simon to be a rock, and upon this rock of Peters confession, Christ built his Church: So that, if you ask upon what foundation the Church stands, it was upon this faith, and against this faith the gates of hell, and all the judicial power thereof shall not prevail.
When Peter had made that profession of his faith, Thou art the Christ the Son of the living God; what saith Christ to this? Blessed art thou Simon, &c. Mat. 16.16, 17, 18. This confession made Simon to be a rock, and upon this rock of Peters confession, Christ built his Church: So that, if you ask upon what foundation the Church stands, it was upon this faith, and against this faith the gates of hell, and all the judiciall power thereof shall not prevail.