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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.
Q. But why doth St. John repeat this thing, had he not said enough before, that he repeats it?
Ans. 1. Before it might be thought that he spake of Carnal men, therefore to make it manifest, that even those that had confessed their sins, and were cleansed from unrighteousness, yet even those if they should say they had no sin should make not only themselves liars, but God a Liar; therefore he repeats it.
Ans. 1. Before it might be thought that he spake of Carnal men, therefore to make it manifest, that even those that had confessed their sins, and were cleansed from unrighteousnesse, yet even those if they should say they had no sin should make not onely themselves lyars, but God a Lyar; therefore he repeats it.
2. He saw that men were ready to cleanse themselves from sin sinfully; if we can by any pretence, we will be ready to free our selves from such opinion of sinfulness, therefore he presses it, that indeed we are so foul that if we say the contrary we have no spark of Religion in us, not one spark of the Word dwells in us.
2. He saw that men were ready to cleanse themselves from sin sinfully; if we can by any pretence, we will be ready to free our selves from such opinion of sinfulnesse, therefore he presses it, that indeed we are so foul that if we say the contrary we have no spark of Religion in us, not one spark of the Word dwells in us.