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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. By Faith we come to God as our heavenly Father in Christ, and well affected to Christ, as loving us himself, Joh. 16.36.
1. By Faith we come to God as our heavenly Father in Christ, and well affected to Christ, as loving us himselfe, Joh. 16.36.
2. We come to him as a Father Almighty, full of goodness, readier to give then we to ask.
2. We come to him as a Father Almighty, full of goodnesse, readyer to give then we to ask.
3. A third act of faith is, for a man to come truly cleaving unto Christ, not standing in demur, whether we had best leave our lusts or no, whether we had best become altogether Christians or no. This wavering cannot stand with faith, for it's such a wavering as whereby he is [Greek or Hebrew], a double-hearted man, an heart for God, and an heart for the world; sometimes for God, sometimes for his own lusts. Let not this man think he shall receive any thing. Jam. 1.6, 7, 8.
3. A third act of faith is, for a man to come truly cleaving unto Christ, not standing in demurre, whether we had best leave our lusts or no, whether we had best become altogether Christians or no. This wavering cannot stand with faith, for it's such a wavering as whereby he is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a double-hearted man, an heart for God, and an heart for the world; sometimes for God, sometimes for his own lusts. Let not this man think he shall receive any thing.