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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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2. From the love we owe to our selves; this benefit we shall reap by it, we shall learn to keep better watch our selves, when we see our Brethren fall, Rom. 11.20. We must not by their falls grow high-minded, and pride our selves that we are not so bad as they, but their falls must be our fears.
Q. With what eyes should we look at the falls of our Brethren?
Answ. 1. Look not at them with a partial or hypocritical eye, Mat. 7.3, 4, 5. But we must so look at the mote in their eye, as to see a beam in our own; we should see as great sins in our selves, or greater, if God did not restrain us, for we all have the same root of evil, and should break out into as bad distempers as any, if God did not hold us back.
Answ. 1. Look not at them wirh a partial or hypocriticall eye, Mat. 7.3, 4, 5. But we must so look at the mote in their eye, as to see a beam in our own; we should see as great sins in our selves, or greater, if God did not restrain us, for we all have the same root of evill, and should break out into as bad distempers as any, if God did not hold us back.