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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 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. Mat. 26.24.
2 Consider, if we have Christ we have life, and that in abundance. If you have all the promises, for in him they are yea and a men, 2 G••. 1.20. All the blessings of God are yours, both spiritual, Ephes. 1.3. and temporal, 1 Tim. 4.8. 1 Cor. 3.2. last vers. If you have Christ, the world is yours, all the dealings and carriages shall be serviceable to you, whatever you want, peace, or comforts, or outward things, if you have Christ, you have all things,