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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…

Name: A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…
Author: John Cotton

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 ...

John Cotton 1584–1652London: printed by M.S. for Thomas Parkhurst, 1658

[9], 431 [i.e. 423], [7] p. · 297k words · Wing C6452 · ESTC R5113

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A COMMENTARY UPON The First Epistle general OF JOHN. › Chapter 2 › Verse 1, 2 › Doct. Such as are the Instruments under God of our Conversion, Just…: Doct. Such as are the Instruments under God of our Conversion, Justification and Sancti…

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Use 3. It may teach both Ministers and people so to carry themselves one towards another, as Fathers and Children; as many times a Mariner carries a King over Sea, but though he be a Prince, yet in that case he must be ⟨p. 48⟩ruled by the Mariner; so a Minister may teach Princes and great men, and they in this case must be as Children to him.

Ʋse 3. It may teach both Ministers and people so to carry themselves one towards another, as Fathers and Children; as many times a Marriner carries a King over Sea, but though he be a Prince, yet in that case he must be ⟨p. 48⟩ruled by the Marriner; so a Minister may teach Princes and great men, and they in this case must be as Children to him.

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1. People are to give their Teachers such kind of respect as Children owe to Parents, Gal. 4.14, 15.

1. People are to give their Teachers such kinde of respect as Children owe to Parents, Gal. 4.14, 15.

:744p. 48¶2

2. Children owe to Parents imitation in any good carriage, and the more they see the Image of God in them, the more they are to imitate them; so people are to follow their Ministers in any good counsel or carriage, that is the duty of Children to their Spiritual Fathers,

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The book

Title as printed

Author

John Cotton 1584–1652

Place

London

Printer

M.S.

Bookseller

Thomas Parkhurst

Year

1658

Size

[9], 431 [i.e. 423], [7] p.

Words

297,259

Catalogue

Wing C6452 · ESTC R5113

Text

EEBO-TCP A34689

Passages

5,042

Sections

380

Title page

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…

Doct. 2. The end of dispensing any promise or convincement of our sinful estate, is not to give liberty to sin, but to prevent sin in us.

Doct. 2. The end of dispencing any promise or convincement of our sinfull estate, is not to give liberty to sin, but to prevent sin in us.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Doct. 2. The end of dispensing any promise or convincement of our sinful estate, is not to give liberty to sin, but to prevent sin in us.

Doct. 2. The end of dispencing any promise or convincement of our sinfull estate, is not to give liberty to sin, but to prevent sin in us.

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