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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 3. May teach all that are believers, diligently to be conversant in the reading of the writings of Saint John, and the other Apostles. Shall the holy Ghost have an hand to write, and shall not we have an hand to receive, or an eye to read? To us were those Epistles written, even to all that believe to the end of the world, Rom. 15.4. How much then is the Church of Rome to blame that lock up those writings from the people, that they may not hear them, but in an unknown tongue which they understand not? nay sometimes the Priests understand not the Latin they read, much less are they able to expound it.
Ʋse 3. May teach all that are believers, diligently to be conversant in the reading of the writings of Saint John, and the other Apostles. Shall the holy Ghost have an hand to write, and shall not we have an hand to receive, or an eye to read? To us were those Epistles written, even to all that believe to the end of the world, Rom. 15.4. How much then is the Church of Rome to blame that lock up those writings from the people, that they may not hear them, but in an unknown tongue which they understand not? nay sometimes the Priests understand not the Latine they read, much lesse are they able to expound it.
Use 4. Of direction to carnal men, what will you say they have no benefit or profit by reading the Word? Yea surely.
Ʋse 4. Of direction to carnal men, what will you say they have no benefit or profit by reading the Word? Yea surely.
1 By hearing the Word expounded, they may be brought on to faith.