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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
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2 To be a Propitiation it is required, that he make peace and reconciliation, for though a man sometimes recompense and satisfy a wrong, yet the ⟨p. 53⟩Party wronged will not be at peace with him, and reconciled to him, but Christ hath taken upon him to reconcile God to us, so as that his wrath is turned from us, and favour restored to us, Col. 1.21. now this reconciling implies Three things.
2 To be a Propitiation it is required, that he make peace and reconciliation, for though a man sometimes recompence and satisfie a wrong, yet the ⟨p. 53⟩Party wronged will not be at peace with him, and reconciled to him, but Christ hath taken upon him to reconcile God to us, so as that his wrath is turned from us, and favour restored to us, Col. 1.21. now this reconciling implies Three things.
1 That sometimes we were friends with God.
2 That we fell out with God.