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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.
Try therefore if such a covenant have past betwixt you and God, have we for our parts given up our selves to God, be sure God hath prevented us in all this, if there have no such covenant past between you and God, then God is not your God, you have not Christ.
Object: Who is there to be found, that so looks to his own ways, and his households, that he walks so strictly with God as you require?
Object: Who is there to be found, that so looks to his own wayes, and his housholds, that he walks so strictly with God as you require?
Answ. True they that do make a covenant with God often break, even as often as there is a thought, or word, or action that was not from Gods word, or mouth, or counsel, but this is our hope. 1. We have Christ for our surety of this covenant, Heb. 7.22. and he will make up all breaches; when therefore we break covenant with God, let us renew our humiliations, and be ashamed of our breach of covenant and charge our souls for it, and acknowledge, that as we have broken covenant with God, so might God justly break covenant with us, and if we thus return and humble our selves, then God will renew his covenant with us again.
Answ. True they that doe make a covenant with God often break, even as often as there is a thought, or word, or action that was not from Gods word, or mouth, or counsel, but this is our hope. 1. We have Christ for our surety of this covenant, Heb. 7.22. and he will make up all breaches; when therefore we break covenant with God, let us renew our humlliations, and be ashamed of our breach of covenant and charge our souls for it, and acknowledge, that as we have broken covenant with God, so might God justly breake covenant with us, and if we thus return and humble our selves, then God will renew his covenant with us again.