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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.
1. Exemplariter, For if Christ be dead, we also shall die with him to sin, Rom. 6.9. & 11.
2. It hath a natural Efficacy, as it is an object for us to look at as fearful and formidable; when sin presents it self, we look at it as crucifying Christ, and shall we look on it without mourning, Zech. 12.10. shall we wrong him so much as to crucify him again?
2. It hath a natural Efficacy, as it is an object for us to look at as fearful and formidable; when sin presents it selfe, we look at it as crucifying Christ, and shall we look on it without mourning, Zech. 12.10. shall we wrong him so much as to crucifie him again?
3. His blood cleanseth sin, in obtaining at Gods hand a Spirit of Sanctification, which makes the death of the Head, reach to the lowest Members of the body, as when the head dies, all the Members die, so the death of Christ having obtained the Spirit of God from him, if he our head die, then we ⟨p. 42⟩shall die to sin: as the resurrection of Christ procures vivification, so the death of Christ, mortification, Gal. 4.4, 5.
3. His bloud cleanseth sin, in obtaining at Gods hand a Spirit of Sanctification, which makes the death of the Head, reach to the lowest Members of the body, as when the head dies, all the Members die, so the death of Christ having obtained the Spirit of God from him, if he our head die, then we