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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.
Answ. True, He speaks not of men without the Church, but within the Church.
Obj. Why, are there not many carnal men in the Church, that love not Christ, that desire him not, that never look towards him?
Obj. Why, are there not many carnall men in the Church, that love not Christ, that desire him not, that never look towards him?
Answ. I take it to be a kind of [Greek or Hebrew], in this slender expression he intends much more then he expresseth; If any man love not; that is, if any man hate the Lord Jesus Christ, if he have partaken in the gifts and graces of Christ, if he have received nor only Baptism, but tasted of the sweetness and goodness of his grace, if after he come to oppose and malign Christ and his ways, Let such a man be Anathema Maranatha.
Answ. I take it to be a kind of 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in this slender expression he intends much more then he expresseth; If any man love not; that is, if any man hate the Lord Jesus Christ, if he have partaken in the gifts and graces of Christ, if he have received nor onely Baptisme, but tasted of the sweetnesse and goodnesse of his grace, if after he come to oppose and maligne Christ and his wayes, Let such a man be Anathema Maranatha.