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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.
Doct. Such as do believe on the name of Christ for salvation, may come to have confidence and knowledge of the hearing and having all their petitions.
For explication.
How do these two great benefits, confidence and knowledge of granting our prayers, spring from what St. John hath written in this Epistle?
Answ. Five things concur to this confidence, and all of them insisted upon by St. John in this Epistle.
1. Our adoption expressed by St. John, ch. 3.1. He wonders at the admirable love of God, not only indebasing of himself to behold things here below, as David did,