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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. 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.
2. Look at them with such an eye as may move thee to pity thy Brother; if he be gone astray, bring him back; if he lye under the burden of sin, help him up, and if thou canst not have opportunity to speak to him, yet pray heartily for him, that is the frame of heart of every loving Christian, to be compassionate of his Brothers misery.
2. Look at them with such an eye as may move thee to pity thy Brother; if he be gone astray, bring him back; if he lye under the burthen of sin, help him up, and if thou canst not have opportunity to speake to him, yet pray heartily for him, that is the frame of heart of every loving Christian, to be compassionate of his Brothers misery.
Object. Doth not the Holy Ghost say, love covereth a multitude of sins? 1 Pet. 4. v. 8.