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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.
Doct. Such as are the Instruments under God of our Conversion, Justification and Sanctification, they are to us as Spiritual Fathers, and we to them as little Children.
It is a speech often used by the Apostle, 1 Cor. 4.15. where he prefers himself before all other Teachers they had, he begat them; so he calls Timothy, 1 Tim. 2.2. Tit. 1.4. so he calls Onesimus in Philemon, Phil. 2.22.
It is a speech often used by the Apostle, 1 Cor. 4.15. where he prefers himselfe before all other Teachers they had, he begat them; so he calls Timothy, 1 Tim. 2.2. Tit. 1.4. so he calls Onesimus in Philemon, Phil. 2.22.
Reas. From the resemblance betwixt them and Natural Parents, as they beget Children of that seed they infuse, so Ministers beget Children of the Immortal Seed of the Word, 1 Pet. 1.23, 24, 25. as in Natural Seed, so in Spiritual, there is a more Material, and a more Spiritual part, the Material part is the Letter of the Word, the more Spiritual part is the Spirit conveyed in it; now because Ministers together with the Word convey the Spirit, therefore they begetting Children of such a Word, they are called Fathers, and those so begotten, Children.