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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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Use 6. Of consolation to every Christian soul, to consider in the midst of our sins, that we have Christ for our propitiation, to keep our peace with ⟨p. 56⟩God, there is not a day passeth over our heads wherein we fall not out with God, and if Christ should not put in, what would become of us? but here is the comfort, Christ is our propitiation, and therefore it is certain and sure that he is more able to keep our peace than we are to break it; and besides, he hath taken it upon him, he hath made it his Office to be an Atonement between God and us; and here is also further comfort, that he hath not only been a means of reconciliation, but he hath manifested it unto us, he hath brought us to see Gods face with comfort.
Ʋse 6. Of consolation to every Christian soul, to consider in the midst of our sins, that we have Christ for our propitiation, to keep our peace with ⟨p. 56⟩God, there is not a day passeth over our heads wherein we fall not out with God, and if Christ should not put in, what would become of us? but here is the comfort, Christ is our propitiation, and therefore it is certaine and sure that he is more able to keep our peace than we are to breake it; and besides, he hath taken it upon him, he hath made it his Office to be an Attonement between God and us; and here is also further comfort, that he hath not only been a means of reconciliation, but he hath manifested it unto us, he hath brought us to see Gods face with comfort.
But this is not all, but here is matter of further comfort, in that he being made a propitiation for the whole world, the whole World shall be at peace with us, there is a reconciliation betwixt me and all the Creatures, I have comfort from every blessing, from Christs Propitiation, Job 5.19. and 23. so that whatsoever a Christian meets with, whether good deeds or bad, persecution, &c. why this is his comfort, that the whole world shall be for his good, though I meet with crosses and afflictions it shall be for my good, from this ground, that Christ is a propitiation for the whole world.