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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.
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.
2 The very reading it self is useful to beget knowledge, to stir up their memory, to quicken their desires.
3 They serve to discover to the people what sin is, what moral works be; so that they have a power to keep men in civil conformity, so that there is good use of them to moral men; but they were chiefly directed to believers. But yet for unbelievers, how should this stir them up to be diligent in hearing the Word preached; for may I read much, two or three times a day, and yet little the nearer salvation? How should it provoke them then, to give diligent heed to hearing? that so wherein reading prevails not, hearing may.