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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.
Object. You will say you allow one friend to pray for another here on Earth, and to entreat God for him, and may not Saints in heaven pray for us, as well as Saints on Earth?
Object. You will say you allow one friend to pray for another here on Earth, and to intreat God for him, and may not Saints in heaven pray for us, as well as Saints on Earth?
Ans. 1. We have both commands and examples for the one, Jam. 5. and Paul often desires the prayers of the church, but we have none for the other.
2 We desire none but such as know our cases to pray for us, but it is uncertain whether the Angels, or Saints in Heaven knows us or our wants; it is certain they know not our thoughts.
2 We desire none but such as know our cases to pray for us, but it is uncertaine whether the Angells, or Saints in Heaven knows us or our wants; it is cartain they know not our thoughts.