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Whosoever places them on any other besides God, is guilty of a very heinous and great sin against him.","proofs":["1 John 2:15"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"68","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/68","segments":[{"text":"It respects and bridles the inward Passion of the Soul, as well as outward Actions; as Hatred,","proofs":["1 John 3:15"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"70","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/70","segments":[{"text":"And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfie the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day.","proofs":["1 John 3:17"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"73","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/73","segments":[{"text":"&c. 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The design of the Scriptures is to give God all the Glory; the design is not to exalt any, but to debase and empty all men, and exalt Gods Name and Grace in the World. 2. The marvellous contrivement of Wisdom in finding out a way for mans recovery and Salvation by Jesus Christ, when fallen by sin into such a state of misery; which no mortal brain could have invented; this doth shew not only that this contrivance was from the infinitely wise God, but also that the Scriptures which have revealed this, are his Book. 8. Because the Scriptures were confirmed by Miracles; we read of many Miracles in the Scripture, especially those which were wrought by Jesus Christ and his Disciples, to confirm their Doctrine that was from God; such as curing some who were born blind, raising the dead, calming the Sea with a word, and many more; now these and the like Miracles were from the immediate hand of God, and the Relation we have faithfully handed down unto us, as appeareth by the Writings still amongst us, of several holy men upon them, and concerning them, as also by the several Copies of them (which could not be forged and not be found out) agreeing in the same Relation: And as surely as God did effect those Miracles, so surely is God the Author of the Scriptures which is confirmed by them. 9. Because the Scriptures were confirmed by the Blood of Martyrs; there were many thousand Christians in the Primitive times who sealed, and gave testimony to the truths of the Scriptures with the loss of their lives: The great faith of the Primitive Christians in the truth of the Scriptures, who might easily have found out the deceit had there been any deceit imposed upon men in them; and the great patience and constancy which they shewed in their sufferings as an evidence of their faith, is a weighty Argument in conjunction with others to prove the Divine Authority of the Scriptures. 10. Because of the testimony of the Spirit of God, in, and with, and by the Scriptures, upon the hearts of Believers, Ye have an Unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things,","proofs":["1 John 2:20"]},{"text":"because, The same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie.","proofs":["1 John 2:27"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"2","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/2","segments":[{"text":"2. Whatever spirit any have which leadeth them against, or besides the Rule of the Scriptures, it is not the spirit of God, and of Truth, but a spirit of Error and Delusion. The Scripture telleth us plainly, that such as hear not the Apostles speaking in the word, are acted by an erronious spirit, Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they be of God, because many false Prophets are gone out into the world. We are of God: he that knoweth God, heareth us; he that is not of God, heareth not us: hereby know we the spirit of Truth, and the spirit of Error.","proofs":["1 John 4:1, 6"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"6","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/6","segments":[{"text":"No. For though the three Persons be God, the Father God, the Son God, and the Holy Ghost God, yet they are not three Gods but one God; the Essence of God is the same in all the three Persons, There are three that bear Record in Heaven, the Father, the Word (that is the Son) and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.","proofs":["1 John 5:7"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"6","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/6","segments":[{"text":"4. 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Gods audience and return to their Prayers, And this is the confidence which we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will he heareth us; and if we know that he heareth us whatever we ask, we know that we have the Petitions we desired of him.","proofs":["1 John 5:14–15"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"36","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/36","segments":[{"text":"Some believers may through the remainders of corruption in them, and the violence of Satans tempting of them fall into sin foully, and so fall from some degrees and measures of grace; but they will never fall totally nor finally from grace. 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If the sense of this place should be that such as are born of God do not commit sin at all, then no regenerate persons which are born of God, would ever be found committing of sin; but the Scripture doth record the sins of many regenerate persons, as hath been shown; and experience doth evidence the same, that such as are born of God commit sin, and therefore that cannot be the meaning of the place, that such as are born of God do not commit sin at all. 2. Such as are born of God do not commit. That is, First, They do not commit sin with the full consent of their will, which is in part renewed, and which so far as it is renewed doth oppose sin, though sometimes it may be overpowred by the strength and violence of temptation. Secondly, They do not live in a course of sin as the unregenerate do. 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For the whole World lyes in Wickedness,","proofs":["1 John 5:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Fear hath torment,","proofs":["1 John 4:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Yes. We love him, because he first loved us,","proofs":["1 John 4:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. His Son Jesus Christ is the true God and Eternal Life,","proofs":["1 John 5:20"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For this purpose was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the Works of the Devil,","proofs":["1 John 3:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the Flesh, is not of God,","proofs":["1 John 4:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For this is the Record, That God hath given to us Eternal Life, and this Life is in his Son,","proofs":["1 John 5:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"24","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/24","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Son of Man is come, and hath given us an Understanding,","proofs":["1 John 5:20"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He is the Propitiation for our Sins, and not for ours only, but for the Sins of the whole World,","proofs":["1 John 2:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"Yes. If any Man Sin we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous,","proofs":["1 John 2:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For truly our Fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ,","proofs":["1 John 1:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Blood of Christ his Son cleanseth us from all Sin,","proofs":["1 John 1:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he is Just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus,","proofs":["1 John 1:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"34","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/34","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Behold what manner of Love the Father hath bestow’d upon us, that we should be called the Sons of God,","proofs":["1 John 3:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"34","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/34","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For in this the Children of God are manifest, and the Children of the Devil, whosoever doth not Righteousness is not of God,","proofs":["1 John 3:10"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"36","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/36","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Beloved, now are we the Sons of God,","proofs":["1 John 3:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"36","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/36","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Ye know that ye have Eternal Life,","proofs":["1 John 5:13"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"36","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/36","segments":[{"text":"Yes. 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When he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is,","proofs":["1 John 3:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"39","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/39","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For his Commandments are not grievous,","proofs":["1 John 5:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"42","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/42","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For this is the love of God, that we keep his Commandments,","proofs":["1 John 5:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"42","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/42","segments":[{"text":"Yes. God is Love,","proofs":["1 John 4:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"42","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/42","segments":[{"text":"Yes. We love him because he first loved us,","proofs":["1 John 4:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"42","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/42","segments":[{"text":"Yes. 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