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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. These three witnesses, the Spirit, the Water, and the blood are in one.
Doct. These three witnesses, the Spirit, the Water, and the bloud are in one.
Not only in this witness, but they are all one for one work; in the Original, [Greek or Hebrew] that is, they all consent to one truth.
Not only in this witnesse, but they are all one for one work; in the Original, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 that is, they all consent to one truth.
And 2. they all go an end and conspire in one work of our Redemption, so that one would be of small use without the other.
And 2. they all goe an end and conspire in one work of our Redemption, so that one would be of small use without the other.
Use 1. To establish our hearts in this testimony, that Jesus is the Son of God, and so to believe it, that we may overcome the world; In the mouth of two or three witnesses every truth shall stand, how much more when three in heaven and three on earth testify the truth? and it's not enough to believe this upon the authority of the State, or thy Parents, or upon the universal consent of all men, for this is no part of divine testimony, and this belief will never help thee to overcome the world; and yet this is the testimony of the Church of Rome, but these humane testimonies will beget but humane credulity.