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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. Christs will was that his Fathers will might be fulfilled, not his; in this he was heard.
2. It's said he was heard in that he feared, though he did drink of the cup, yet he was saved from those fears and terrors that overwhelmed him.
3. The main end of Christ was, that his Church might be redeemed, which God granted; so God granted the end of his petition, though not the thing it self. So Moses prayed earnestly that he might go over and see the good Land, God told him he should not go over, yet God let him see that good Land as well as if he had gone over. If we submit our wills to Gods will, and pray in humility and faith, make account God seriously ponders the aim of your hearts in begging such a mercy, and though he seems to cross such your petitions, and to delay them, yet he knows how to grant the end of your petitions by other means then you conceive, even then when God is displeased with our weak and unworthy prayers, as he was with Moses, Deut. 3.22, to 28 Yet then he knows how to grant what we aimed at. And this magnifies the name of Christ, that though in our own name we should never find acceptance yet in Christs name he will grant our petitions.
3. The main end of Christ was, that his Church might be redeemed, which God granted; so God granted the end of his petition, though not the thing it self. So Moses prayed earnestly that he might goe over and see the good Land, God told him he should not goe over, yet God let him see that good Land as well as if he had gone over. If we submit our wills to Gods will, and pray in humility and faith, make account God seriously ponders the aime of your hearts in begging such a mercy, and though he seems to crosse such your petitions, and to delay them, yet he knows how to grant the end of your petitions by other means then you conceive, even then when God is displeased with our weake and unworthy prayers, as he was with Moses,