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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
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Use 3. To move us to help one another out of sin, we should count it beastly and sluttish, if we should let a Child lie in its filth, so are we, if we let any that we can help, lie in their own defilements of sin; and were our minds as quick to smell as our bodies, we should as much loath the smell or presence of sin, as of filthy dung: it is for want of spiritual sense, that we are no more affected with it.
Ʋse 3. To move us to help one another out of sin, we should count it beastly and sluttish, if we should let a Child lie in its filth, so are we, if we let any that we can help, lie in their own defilements of sin; and were our mindes as quick to smell as our bodies, we should as much loath the smell or presence of sin, as of filthy dung: it is for want of spirituall sence, that we are no more affected with it.
Use 4. To provoke us to more earnest wrestling for cleansing from sin; when we have defiled our selves with sin, none can help us out but God, others may help the work forward, but none can effectually cleanse us but God, therefore we should come before God as the Saints of God have done, Ezra 9.6. Jer. 31.18, 19. Dan. 9.7. we must not come before God with extenuation, like Adam; we should be ashamed to come into company with defiled bodies, we should not say it is our infirmity or a looseness we are subject to, we have our spiritual looseness from God, from prayer, from our callings, from holy duties, this is a loathsome thing to pretend looseness or infirmity in filthy things, therefore let us take shame to our selves, and strive for cleansing, Psal. 51.7. he would be thoroughly cleansed.
Ʋse 4. To provoke us to more earnest wrestling for cleansing from sin; when we have defiled our selves with sin, none can help us out but God, others may help the work forward, but none can effectually cleanse us but God, therefore we should come before God as the Saints of God have done,