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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.
1 Some inward peace of conscience, some inward satisfaction that he never found before. My sin is not pardoned, at least not manifested so to be, till I find some measure of inward peace, Rom. 5.1. What was it that burdened thy conscience, but guilt of sin? If therefore God say to my soul, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee; upon this follows the tranquility of the mind, and sometimes in that unspeakable manner, that passeth all understanding, Phil. 4.7. Though this be not so ordinary, yet they always find a secret peace and ease, as if you had cast off millstones from the heart, Isa. 32.17. The effect of righteousness is quietness and assurance for ever; if sin be pardoned, peace and everlasting assurance follows.
1 Some inward peace of conscience, some inward satisfaction that he never found before. My sin is not pardoned, at least not manifested so to be, till I finde some measure of inward peace, Rom. 5.1. What was it that burthened thy conscience, but guilt of sin? If therefore God say to my soul, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee; upon this follows the tranquility of the mind, and sometimes in that unspeakable manner, that passeth all understanding, Phil. 4.7. Though this be not so ordinary, yet they alwayes finde a secret peace and ease, as if you had cast off milstones from the heart, Isa. 32.17. The effect of righteousnesse is quietnesse and assurance for ever; if sin be pardoned, peace and everlasting assurance follows.
A 2. effect of this life of Justification, is, that look as you see in a moral life, no man hath received life, but he strives to maintain it, so that all that he hath will he give for his life; So, if thou hast received the life of the pardon of thy sins, thou shalt find a serious, and constant care of preserving