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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.
2 Of a Christian from Hypocrisy in the sight of both God and Man; the first way a man is justified only by the blood of Christ; the second way by good Works; for we must know a mans Conscience hath two burdens.
2 Of a Christian from Hypocrisie in the sight of both God and Man; the first way a man is justified onely by the blood of Christ; the second way by good Works; for we must know a mans Conscience hath two burthens.
1 My Sins are great, and liable to Damnation, how shall I be acquit of that? From this our own works cannot justify us, it is done only by the blood of Christ.
1 My Sins are great, and liable to Damnation, how shall I be acquit of that? From this our own works cannot justifie us, it is done onely by the blood of Christ.
2 I, but the blood of Christ cleanseth only true Christians that are in Christ, and have true grace, but you are an Hypocrite, how shall I now be quit from the imputation of Hypocrisy? In that I am justified by my works let it appear to my self and others, that I have lived in all uprightness, 2 Cor. 1.12. so that justification from Hypocrisy before God an Man, is from the witness of my upright and unblameable life, so that I am justified from a double accusation, from the one by one way, from the other by another way. I am a sinner, that I cannot deny, my best works are sinful, therefore from that I am justified only by the blood of Christ.
2 I, but the blood of Christ cleanseth only true Christians that are in Christ, and have true grace, but you are an Hypocrite, how shall I now be quit from the imputation of Hypocrisie? In that I am justified by my works let it appear to my self and others, that I have lived in all uprightnesse,