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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. 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, Psal. 113.4, to 8. but in looking on us poor earth-worms, and raising us up to be Sons and daughters to God: So that this is the first ground of our confidence in prayer, viz. our adoption, that we are Sons of God, Gal. 4.5, 6. Rom. 8.15. To whom may a Son come more boldly then to his Father? And what assures him more of the grant of his petitions, then that he is his Son?
1. Our adoption exprest by St. John, ch. 3.1. He wonders at the admirable love of God, not only indebasing of himselfe to behold things here below, as David did, Psal. 113.4, to 8. but in looking on us poor earth-wormes, and raising us up to be Sons and daughters to God: So that this is the first ground of our confidence in prayer, viz. our adoption, that we are Sons of God, Gal. 4.5, 6. Rom. 8.15. To whom may a Son come more boldly then to his Father? And what assures him more of the grant of his petitions, then that he is his Son?
2. Christs advocation breeds confidence in us, 1 Joh. 2.1, 2•. Christ pleads with his Father on our behalf for the hearing our petitions, and for the granting of what we want. An Advocate puts the petition, that it may be was rudely drawn by a man, into a form of Law, and so it holds currant in Law; so doth Christ with our prayers, he puts them into a right form and so pleads for us.