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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.
How may that be done?
1. He is to look that he grow strong himself, for weak men in nature are not prolifici, therefore Ministers must labour to grow strong in grace, a man without grace seldom begets any to God, therefore they must first mortify sin, and then increase in grace, Prov. 11.13.
1. He is to look that he grow strong himselfe, for weak men in nature are not prolifici, therefore Ministers must labour to grow strong in grace, a man without grace seldome begets any to God, therefore they must first mortifie sin, and then increase in grace, Prov. 11.13.
2. There may be strength in Ministers, yet there may be a disproportion betwixt them, and their people, therefore Ministers and people must strive to keep a proportion and correspondence, he must see how he may accommodate himself to the temper of his people, they must with Paul, become all to all, that they may beget some: in any thing that is lawful he must accommodate, but he must by no means comply to the evil humours of his people, Jer. 15.19. for then he brings contempt upon his Life and Doctrine.
2. There may be strength in Ministers, yet there may be a disproportion betwixt them, and their people, therefore Ministers and people must strive to keep a proportion and correspondence, he must see how he may accommodate himself to the temper of his people, they must with Paul, become all to all, that they may beget some: in any thing that is lawfull he must acommodate, but he must by no means comply to the evill humours of his people,