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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.
And for carriage, a man may so carry himself, as if he were a good Christian.
1 A man may profess Religion for worldly respects, as many became Jews, H•st. 8.17. it may be for fear of the Laws, or Friends, many love Christ for Loaves, for Profit, because there is fullness in Christ, Joh. 6.16.
1 A man may professe Religion for worldly respects, as many became Jewes, H•st. 8.17. it may be for fear of the Lawes, or Friends, many love Christ for Loaves, for Profit, because there is fullnesse in Christ, Joh. 6.16.
2 Common Graces may make us profess Religion; as a man that hath been enlarged at the word, he is willing to come to it, as those Joh. 5.35. and yet were but [Greek or Hebrew], Joh. 4.20. and the stony ground.
2 Common Graces may make us professe Religion; as a man that hath been enlarged at the word, he is willing to come to it, as those Joh. 5.35. and yet were but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉,