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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.
4 Cast your meditation on the mighty power of God, which is able to heal such untoward hearts as yours.
5 Use all the means you may, and endeavour with all the strength you may, that God may heal you.
6 If you doubt of his will, and are not confident of his ability, pray that God would give you a believing heart. Lord help my unbelief.
Use 3. For them that have rolled themselves on Christ, rest not in rolling, there is no rest to be had in rolling, therefore from rolling […] come to establishment in Christ, and th•re rest, sit down in quietness and confidence; now if thou wouldst have a stone lye on the foundation, thou most cut off all the roughness and unsquarenesse, or else it cannot lye […] there is none but either he hath some doubts that make him under or else pride that is a great swelling, therefore we must lay down all our high thoughts and […] level with Christ, for he is meek and lowly: besides, all hatred and […], is an uneven swelling in our hearts, and how […] can they lye smooth in the building? bowls and swelling bodies will not touch but in […] point, smoo things lye flat: what swelling of heart we see in us, either to pride, on covetousness, or wrath; if we would lye smooth and sure in the building, we must pare off all these out-running and swellings of our hearts, and so bring […] smooth and even, we shall lye sure upon the foundation.