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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
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3. What merits at Gods hands, should be perfect and par•, without spot, else it deserves nothing: Now our best righteousness is defiled, Isa. 46.6. Exod. 28.38. Our best offerings, if God did not accept of them in Christs holiness, he might justly reject them.
3. What merits at Gods hands, should be perfect and par•, without spot, else it deserves nothing: Now our best righteousnesse is defiled, Isa. 46.6. Exod. 28.38. Our best offerings, if God did not accept of them in Christs holinesse, he might justly reject them.
4. In all merit it is requisite that there should be something proportionable betwixt the work and the reward, now what proportion is there between natural life and spiritual, and betwixt our life of grace, and the life of glory? Our sufferings, which are the highest part of our obedience, they are not worthy to be compared to the eternal weight of glory; indeed they work for […] a plentiful recompense of reward, 2 Cor. 4.17. But this is through the free gift of God.
4. In all merit it is requisite that there should be something proportionable betwixt the work and the reward, now what proportion is there between naturall life and spirituall, and betwixt our life of grace, and the life of glory? Our sufferings, which are the highest part of our obedience, they are not worthy to be compared to the eternall weight of glory; indeed they work for 〈…〉 a plentifull recompence of reward,