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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.
Use 2. To teach us to have a due regard to the falls of our Brethren, not to see them, and take no notice of them, but God requires we should observe them, and help them, and make use of them.
Ʋse 2. To teach us to have a due regard to the falls of our Brethren, not to see them, and take no notice of them, but God requires we should observe them, and help them, and make use of them.
What use should we make of our Brethren's falls?
What use should we make of our Brethrens falls?
1. Let their falls affect us with a holy fear and jealousy of our own hearts; in that we have a deceitful heart, subject to the like. This use Paul would have the Church of the Romans to make of the fall of the Church of Israel, Rom. 11.20.
1. Let their falls affect us with a holy fear and jealousie of our own hearts; in that we have a deceitfull heart, subject to the like. This use Paul would have the Church of the Romanes to make of the fall of the Church of Israel, Rom. 11.20.