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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.
3 He pleads for us, in giving us leave to use his name for our help, and his Spirit to plead for our selves, he sends his Spirit to draw our petitions for us, and help us in his name ro plead for our selves, he is our chief Advocate, he sends the Spirit, Joh. 16.23, 24. and he promises, Zach. 12.10. so that though the Spirit be an Advocate, yet he is sent by Christ, Joh. 14.16, 17.
3 He pleads for us, in giving us leave to use his name for our helpe, and his Spirit to plead for our selves, he sends his Spirit to draw our petitions for us, and helpe us in his name ro plead for our selves, he is our chiefe Advocate, he sends the Spirit, Joh. 16.23, 24. and he promises, Zach. 12.10. so that though the Spirit be an Advocate, yet he is sent by Christ, Joh. 14.16, 17.
4 He plays the Advocate in our behalf, by expressing his good will towards us, to his Father, he declares his will to be, that we may be cleared from all doubts and be where he is, to behold his glory, this he did upon earth, Joh. 17.24. and this very same doth he express for us in Heaven, and the reason of it is from Rom. 8.34. where his mediation is made a distinct work from his death, and resurrection, and ascension, and sitting at his Fathers right hand; besides all these, he makes requests for us in his own person, pleading to God for us for good things, as Moses did oft for the people,