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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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Use 5, Let it teach us all, if we yet be without Christ, let us not give rest to our eyes, nor slumber to our eye-lids, till we have procured Christ to our selves and ours. What if a man have wealth, and honour, and beauty, if he hath not Christ, he hath not life. Therefore labour for Christ, that having him thou mayst have life.
Ʋse 5, Let it teach us all, if we yet be without Christ, let us not give rest to our eyes, nor slumber to our eye-lids, till we have procured Christ to our selves and ours. What if a man have wealth, and honour, and beauty, if he hath not Christ, he hath not life. Therefore labour for Christ, that having him thou mayst have life.
Motives.
1 From the sweetness of life. Skin for skin, and all that a man hath, will he give for his life; and he means natural life, but truly our spiritual life is worth the laying down our natural life. What shall a man gain, if he ⟨p. 410⟩win the whole world, and lose his own soul. If a man live and dye without Christ we may say of him as Christ did of Judas, It had been good for that man if he had never have been born. Mat. 26.24.
1 From the sweetnesse of life. Skin for skin, and all that a man hath, will he give for his life; and he means natural life, but truly our spirituall life is worth the laying down our natural life. What shall a man gain, if he ⟨p. 410⟩win the whole world, and lose his own soul. If a man live and dye without Christ we may say of him as Christ did of Judas, It had been good for that man if he had never have been born.