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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.
3 God accounts of any sincere truth of grace as perfect, because in time it will be so, and he looks at things to come as present, he that hath begun a good work will also perfect it, Phil. 1.6. 1 Thes. 5.23, 24.
Q. But how comes it to pass, that such a keeping of the Commandments argues love to be perfect?
Q. But how comes it to passe, that such a keeping of the Commandments argues love to be perfect?
A. A thing is said to be perfect three ways,
1 When there is Perfectio partium, a perfection of all parts, none wanting, Gen. 2.1.