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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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1. We are like him in his nature, 2 Pet. 1.4 by the precious promises, we are made partakers of the divine Nature, so that we are meek as he was, lowly as he was, innocent and harmless as he was the Spirit of God stamp• the same Image on us that was in Christ, Joh. 1.16. Hence it is, that the e that have Christ, they reason from Christs nature to theirs, and from their nature to Christs, 2 Cor. 1.17, 18, 19. Paul had sometimes sent to them, that he would come to them as he passed by into Macedonia, but neither in his going not his return did he come to them, therefore they accuse him of levity and inconstancy; Paul excuseth this, and he pleads from the nature of Christ; for the Son of God, Jesus Christ that was preached among you by us, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea; Why, what's that to him? Yes, look as Christ is yea and amen, the faithful witness, that what he speaks, he will perform, •o make account that Christ hath poured the same Spirit on us, that our words likewise are yea and amen, had not Gods providence hindered it; there is such a participation of the divine nature, that the nature of Christ, the nature of the Gospel, and the nature of a Christian, all of them answer one another; the same Spirit that made Christ yea and amen, faithful and true, hath made the Gospel, and so the same Spirit in Gods people makes them true and faithful, so that look what they say, their hearts go with it, and if Gods providence hinders not, they will perform their word.
1. We are like him in his nature, 2 Pet. 1.4 by the precious promises, we are made partakers of the divine Nature, so that we are meek as he was, lowly as he was, innocent and harmlesse as he was the Spirit of God stamp• the same Image on us that was in Christ, Joh. 1.16. Hence it is, that the e that have Christ, they reason from Christs nature to theirs, and from their nature to Christs,