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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
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Obser. 6. If the Apostles Doctrine be the Lords Message, then purity is needful in the Messengers, the Lord expostulateth with an ungodly man for the want of it, Psal. 50.16, 17. that mouth should not be used to rotten and unsavoury speeches, which is the Lords Interpreter to the people; all the Vessels of the ministration to the Lord were holy in the old Tabernacle, how much more ought the Minister who is a chosen vessel unto him? Earthen vessels we are indeed, 2 Cor. 4 3. yet when they are clean and sweet, we loathe not to eat and drink out of them.
Obser. 6. If the Apostles Doctrin be the Lords Message, then purity is needfull in the Messengers, the Lord expostulateth with an ungodly man for the want of it, Psal. 50.16, 17. that mouth should not be used to rotten and unsavoury speeches, which is the Lords Interpreter to the people; all the Vessels of the ministration to the Lord were holy in the old Tabernacle, how much more ought the Minister who is a chosen vessel unto him? Earthen vessels we are indeed, 2 Cor. 4 3. yet when they are clean and sweet, we loathe not to eat and drink out of them.
Use. Against profane and uncircumcised Ministers.
Ʋse. Against prophane and uncircumcised Ministers.
Obser. 7. Then the Apostles Doctrine, the Doctrine of the Gospel, must not be received as the Doctrine of men, but as a Message from God, and that is