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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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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.
3. Because it is a point of great necessity to believe the contrary truth, therefore he takes up this conclusion again; To say, is either In Heart, In Word, In Carriage:
Well, to say thus, is to make God a Liar, and so no God, for if he be not a God of Truth, he is no God; for, Verum & bonum convertuntur.
Well, to say thus, is to make God a Lyar, and so no God, for if he be not a God of Truth, he is no God; for, Verum & bonum convertuntur.