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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 1 › Verse 1
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.
First, Why rather is it said here, that was from the begging, then he which was from the beginning?
First, Why rather is it said here, that was from the beginng, then he which was from the beginning?
Secondly, What is it here to be from the beginning?
First, It is here said, that which was from the beginning, to signify and set forth unto us, a double nature in one and the same word of life, in one and the same person of Christ; If he had said, he who was from the beginning, whom we have seen, &c. It might have been thought that the same word of life was in one and the same nature, both from the beginning, and seen, and heard, or else that one person was from the beginning, another person seen, and heard, but when he saith, that word of life, which was from the beginning, and that which we have heard, and seen, &c. he plainly insinuateth, that there is (as they say) aliud & aliud, in the word of life.
First, It is here said, that which was from the beginning, to signifie and set forth unto us, a double nature in one and the same word of life, in one and the same person of Christ; If he had said, he who was from the beginning, whom we have seen, &c. It might have been thought that the same word of life was in one and the same nature, both from the beginning, and seen, and heard, or else that one person was from the beginning, another person seen, and heard, but when he saith, that word of life, which was from the beginning, and that which we have heard, and seen, &c. he plainly insinuateth, that there is (as they say) aliud & aliud, in the word of life.