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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
A COMMENTARY UPON The First Epistle general OF JOHN. › Chapter 2 › Verse 3 › Doctrine 1
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Doct. 1. A man that knows Christ, may, and ought to come to know that he doth know him, or hath fellowship and communion with him.
Doct. 2. Such as do keep his Commandments may come to know that they do know Christ, that they have true fellowship with him.
Doct. 2. Such as do keep his Commandments may ceme to know that they do know Christ, that they have true fellowship with him.
1 For the First, a man that knows Christ, may, and ought to come to know that he knows him, or hath fellowship and communion with him; hereby we know that we know him, here is actio reflexa, the Senses they do not reflect themselves, the eye sees other mens faces, not its own, but by reflection in a Glass, but in our Spiritual knowledge we may more sensibly discern our Spiritual estate, than our faces in a Glass, for we see not that, but in another Me•lium, but a man knows his knowledge of Spiritual things directly, he not only knows, but knows that he knows what is meant by these.
1 For the First, a man that knows Christ, may, and ought to come to know that he knows him, or hath fellowship and communion with him; hereby we know that we know him, here is actio reflexa, the Senses they do not reflect themselves, the eye sees other mens faces, not its own, but by reflection in a Glasse, but in our Spiritual knowledge we may more sensibly discern our Spiritual estate, than our faces in a Glasse, for we see not that, but in another Melium, but a man knows his knowledge of Spiritual things directly, he not onely knows, but knows that he knows what is meant by these.