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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
A COMMENTARY UPON The First Epistle general OF JOHN. › Chapter 5 › Verse 16
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.
Verse 16. latter part. There is a sin unto death, &c.
These words contain an exception from his former direction, that in case we see our Brother sin a sin unto death, I do not say he shall pray for it.
These words contain an exception from his former direction, that in case we see our Brother sin a sin unto death, I doe not say he shall pray for it.
There is therefore a sin unto death.
Indeed every sin is mortal, no sin venial, Rom. 6.23. There is no sin but deserves death, but yet there is a sin unto death; that is, there […] no ordinary sin but may be forgiven, that therefore is a sin unto death, that not only deserves death, but doth certainly and inevitably procure death.