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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.
First, Of power, Luke 24.49. and its that power that fell on them on the day of Pentecost; which our Saviour intimated to them expressly, John 20.21, 22. so that their words remit sins and ease the conscience, and bind it, 1 Cor. 14.24, 25. 2 Cor. 13.3, 4, 5. Now then the Spirit breathing in the Apostles, though their outward man was base and weak, yet their words were mighty and powerful, and even as Christ was most full of power, when he was most debased. There is a threefold power in the Scripture.
First, Of power, Luke 24.49. and its that power that fell on them on the day of Pentecost; which our Saviour intimated to them expresly, John 20.21, 22. so that their words remit sins and ease the conscience, and bind it, 1 Cor. 14.24, 25. 2 Cor. 13.3, 4, 5. Now then the Spirit breathing in the Apostles, though their outward man was base and weak, yet their words were mighty and powerfull, and even as Christ was most full of power, when he was most debased. There is a threefold power in the Scripture.
1. There is a mighty power therein to convince men of their sinful estate, and of their need of Christ, John 16, 8, 9.