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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 2. It condemns their excluding the vulgar sort from reading the Scriptures, for if by them we may come to know Christ, and that we have eternal life, then take away them, and you take away a principal means of salvation.
Ʋse 2. It condemns their excluding the vulgar sort from reading the Scriptures, for if by them we may come to know Christ, and that we have eternal life, then take away them, and you take away a principal means of salvation.
Use 3. For such Christians as are doubtful of their estate, above all the writings of the Apostle read this Epistle, it was the main scope of St. John, in this Epistle, that their joy might be full, and that they might know they had eternal life, here you shall find a good ground-work of your good estate.
Ʋse 3. For such Christians as are doubtful of their estate, above all the writings of the Apostle read this Epstile, it was the main scope of St. John, in this Epistle, that their joy might be full, and that they might know they had eternal life, here you shall finde a good ground-work of your good estate.
Use 4. To teach all believers to know what they have profited by reading: it's an usual thing to content our selves, if we do but read a chapter, and pray every morning, and our conscience is not satisfied if we omit it, but a man may read and pray, and yet get no good, but if you would read profitably, so read that you may know that you have eternal life, & when you have so ⟨p. 414⟩read, then you have read to purpose, therefore in reading learn to search out diligently the knowledge of your estates.