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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
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There was something of the word of life, that was from the beginning, as namely his Godhead; And again, something in the same word of life that was heard, and seen, &c. as his Manhood, and withal, that this was not another person, but another thing, another nature in the same person. This serves to confute those two Ancient Heresies of Eutiches and Nestorius, he confounding the Natures this dividing the persons of Christ. Eutiches confuted, because something there is of the word of life that was from the beginning, something of the same word of life that was heard, and seen, &c. that which was from the beginning, was not the same thing which was heard, and seen, &c. and that which was heard, and seen, &c. was not the same thing which was from the beginning.
There was something of the word of life, that was from the beginning, as namely his Godhead; And againe, something in the same word of life that was heard, and seen, &c. as his Manhood, and withall, that this was not another person, but another thing, another nature in the same person. This serves to confute those two Antient Heresies of Eutiches and Nestorius, he confounding the Natures this dividing the persons of Christ. Eutiches confuted, because something there is of the word of life that was from the beginning, something of the same word of life that was heard, and seen, &c. that which was from the beginning, was not the same thing which was heard, and seen, &c. and that which was heard, and seen, &c. was not the same thing which was from the beginning.
Nestorius is confuted, because both that which was of the word from the beginning, and that of the word which was seen, and heard, were both of the same word of life, both the natures of one and the same person.
Secondly, Again, if something there be of the same word Eternal, and again something of same the word Sensible, then there is no confusion of properties in the person of Christ. The Apostles preach such a Christ, as of whom something is from the beginning, something again heard, and seen, that of the word which was from the beginning, that of the word was not sensible, and that of the word which was sensible, was not that of the word which was Eternal.