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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.
Q. Is there any in whose heart there is no guile?
A. There is none that they tolerate or justify, none that they nourish or maintain, if they have any they strive against it, are not well till they be rid of it, no guile but what their judgments disallow, and their wills consent not to, blessed are such to whom no sin is imputed, in whose spirit there is no guile.
A. There is none that they tollerate or justifie, none that they nourish or maintain, if they have any they strive against it, are not well till they be rid of it, no guile but what their judgments disallow, and their wills consent not to, blessed are such to whom no sin is imputed, in whose spirit there is no guile.
2 Such are said to be perfect, because they strive after perfection, and if they have a willing mind the Lord accepts of it, according to that a man hath, and not according to that a man hath not, 2 Cor. 8.12. See how Christ approved the two Mites of the poor Widow, because she had an heart to give all her estate, Christ saith, She gave more than they all; so if a man gives all his heart to God, and if he had more he would give more, why, God accounts it as perfect.