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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.
Reas. 1. From the compassion we owe to our Brethren, we are bound to pray for them in sickness, Psal. 35.13. or in any other calamity, Ps. 141.5. How much more in the calamity of sin, which is the greatest calamity that can be.
Reas. 1. From the compassion we owe to our Brethren, we are bound to pray for them in sicknesse, Psal. 35.13. or in any other calamity, Ps. 141.5. How much more in the calamity of sin, which is the greatest calamity that can be.
2. We are bound to exhort and reprove them, now neither will do good without prayer, 1 Tim. 4.4, 5.
2. We are bound to exhort and reprove them, now neither will doe good without prayer, 1 Tim. 4.4, 5.
3. From the desperate condition of sin, which is such that none alone is able to help them, except God do it. It's the work of an Almighty power to redeem us from any sin, Psal. 130. ult. Sin is of a poison some nature, some poisons take away our eyes, and some benumb us, so sin takes away our eyes that we cannot see our condition, and so hardens us, that not any thing can help us but God, and therefore God must be prayed to for help.