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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
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.
Hence at our first Creation, Gods Image consisted in 1 Knowledge, Col. 3.10. 2 Holiness, Ephes. 4.24.
Hence at our first Creation, Gods Image consisted in 1 Knowledge, Col. 3.10. 2 Holinesse, Ephes. 4.24.
And by our Regeneration we are again light, Ephes. 5.8.
Furthermore, God is said to be Light, not tropically by an Hyperbole, because these things are in him, but properly, because he is Light, that is, Wisdom and Holiness it self, for God is Knowledge, and so his Holiness is Himself, for either God understandeth all things by his own Essence, or by the Species, or Images of things, this he could not, because he understood them before they were, therefore he understood them by his Essence; Gods Holiness also is Himself, or else it is in God, and so some composition will be found in God, at least of Subject and Adjunct, then something will be found before God, for a Simple thing is in Nature before a Compound: now in Nature nothing can be before God, if it could, he were not God.
Furthermore, God is said to be Light, not tropically by an Hyperbole, because these things are in him, but properly, because he is Light, that is, Wisdom and Holinesse it self, for God is Knowledge, and so his Holinesse is Himself, for either God understandeth all things by his own Essence, or by the Species, or Images of things, this he could not, because he understood them before they were, therefore he understood them by his Essence; Gods Holinesse also is Himself, or else it is in God, and so some composition will be found in God, at least of Subject and Adjunct, then something will be found before God, for a Simple thing is in Nature before a Compound: now in Nature nothing can be before God, if it could, he were not God.