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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.
2 He Advocates by pleading the merits of his own death, now how could it have been meritorious, had he dyed as a malefactor.
3 He gives us his name and his Spirit to use in our Prayers, now to use his name had been of no effect, if he had been a sinner.
4 He prays for us, makes known his will to his Father concerning us, but this would do no good, had he been a sinner.
4 He prayes for us, makes known his will to his Father concerning us, but this would do no good, had he been a sinner.
3 It is meet he should be righteous, that he might be our justifier, our justification is by his obedience, his righteousness is imputed to us, now his righteousness could not have been imputed to us, had it been imperfect, 1 Cor. 2.3