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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.
A. 1. It is not in his judgement, when he is not persuaded of it.
A. 1. It is not in his judgement, when he is not perswaded of it.
2. It is not in his heart, when he trusts not in it, and receives it not in love, and the saving efficacy of it; he that saith he hath no sin receives not the word; he speaks of the Word here, as Verbum salutiferum, Acts 20.32. 1 Thes. 2.13. 2 Tim. 3.15. Now the Word is said not to be in a man when there is not so much Word as will save; a man may be ignorant of some Divine truths, and yet the Word of God may be in him, but if he want the Knowledge and Faith of such Points, without which he cannot be saved, the Word dwells not in him; now he that denies sin to be in him, there is not only a denial of that truth, but he is empty of all other saving truths.
2. It is not in his heart, when he trusts not in it, and receives it not in love, and the saving efficacy of it; he that saith he hath no sin receives not the word; he speaks of the Word here, as Verbum salutiferum, Acts 20.32. 1 Thes. 2.13. 2 Tim. 3.15. Now the Word is said not to be in a man when there is not so much Word as will save; a man may be ignorant of some Divine truths, and yet the Word of God may be in him, but if he want the Knowledge and Faith of such Points, without which he cannot be saved, the Word dwells not in him; now he that denies sin to be in him, there is not onely a denial of that truth, but he is empty of all other saving truths.