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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.
The third witness is the Spirit, every Person in the Trinity is an holy Spirit▪ John 4.24. yet it is more particularly attributed to the third Person, because he works powerfully and effectually, all that life and power we see the creature express, so we see that there are three […] as that bear witness to the Divinity of Christ, and if three, there is a difference in number▪ now there is no desertion but a Personal difference, Heb. 1.3. so that the Father is one Person, the Son a […], the holy Ghost • third, yet these Persons make but one in Na••, and so they are one in witness, D••. 6.4. Jehovah our God is but one, for it is impossible there should be more then one God: Nature of it self abhors more Infinites then one; if there were more Gods then one, if many gods, how could they be Al sufficient, but that one should have the perfection of another?
The third witnesse is the Spirit, every Person in the Trinity is an holy Spirit▪ John 4.24. yet it is more particularly attributed to the third Person, because he works powerfully and effectually, all that life and power we see the creature expresse, so we see that there are three 〈…〉 as that bear witnesse to the Divinity of Christ, and if three, there is a difference in number▪ now there is no dissertion but a Personall difference, Heb. 1.3. so that the Father is one Person, the Son a 〈…〉, the holy Ghost • third, yet these Persons make but one in Na••, and so they are one in witnesse, D••. 6.4. Jehovah our God is but one, for it is impossible there should be more then one God: Nature of it selfe abhors more Infinites then one; if there were more Gods then one, if many gods, how could they be Al sufficient, but that one should have the perfection of another?