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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.
There is a double phrase used, 1 Credere Deo. 2 Credere in filium Dei.
Credere Deo, is to believe that there is a God.
2 That every testimony God gives us is true, Act. 27.25. I believe God, that it shall be so as he hath said, but to believe on God, or on the Son of God, is a phrase peculiar only to Scripture, not found in any humane Writers.
Now to believe that there is a God, and that his Word is true, are acts of the understanding; but to believe on God, is not only an act of my understanding, but of my will; whereby I trust on him, and roll my self upon him, it's expressed by laying a stone upon a foundation, 1 Pet. 2.5, 6. Christ lies as the corner stone of his Church, every living stone lies upon him, depends upon him, and that is to believe on God, to lift up our souls, and lye on the foundation,