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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
A COMMENTARY UPON The First Epistle general OF JOHN. › Chapter 2 › Verse 1, 2
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.
2. Whereas he saith, If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves, and there is no truth in us, it might be Objected, To what end then should we strive against sin, seeing do we what we can we shall still sin?
2. Whereas he saith, If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves, and there is no truth in us, it might be Objected, To what end then should we strive against sin, seeing doe we what we can we shall still sin?
Against both these Objections he shows them in the Text, that he writes not these things to embolden them in sin, but to discourage them from sin; These things I write unto you, that ye sin not.
Against both these Objections he shews them in the Text, that he writes not these things to embolden them in sin, but to discourage them from sin; These things I write unto you, that ye sin not.
The Parts of these words are Three; 1. A loving compellation, My little Children; 2. A declaration of the end of his writing, viz. their innocency, that they sin not. 3. A consolation to them, who notwithstanding fall into sin, for this he tells them, Christ was both an Advocate and an Atonement.
The Parts of these words are Three; 1. A loving compellation, My little Children; 2. A declariton of the end of his writing, viz. their innocency, that they sin not. 3. A consolation to them, who notwithstanding fall into sin, for this he tells them, Christ was both an Advocate and an Attonement.