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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.
Object. Doth not the Holy Ghost say, love covereth a multitude of sins? 1 Pet. 4. v. 8.
Answ. True, it covers them, but how?
1. With a mantle of wisdom, not so cover them as to skin over their wounds, but so cover them as that they may be covered before God and men, Jam. 5.19, 20. This is a right covering, when a man takes such a course as that his Brothers sins may be covered from Gods eyes, and from the conscience of the sinner, that it may not be overwhelmed with them, Psal. 32.1, 2. God would have us cover them not with a mantle of flattery, but with a healing plaster that may cure them.
1. With a mantle of wisdome, not so cover them as to skinne over their wounds, but so cover them as that they may be covered before God and men, Jam. 5.19, 20. This is a right covering, when a man takes such a course as that his Brothers sins may be covered from Gods eyes, and from the conscience of the sinner, that it may not be overwhelmed with them, Psal. 32.1, 2. God would have us cover them not with a mantle of flattery, but with a healing plaister that may cure them.