A Practical Commentary: An Exposition with Observations, Reasons, and Uses upon the First Epistle General of John

by John Cotton

Publisher:

Faithlife

, 2015

Overview

This volume contains an extensive commentary on the first epistle of John from the Puritan minister John Cotton. His expository commentary reflects Cotton’s Puritan theology and in addition to its thorough exegesis, it provides a window into the heated controversies within the Anglican church and the burgeoning movements in the seventeenth-century American church.

Product Details

• Title: A Practical Commentary: An Exposition with Observations, Reasons, and Uses upon the First Epistle General of John
• Author: John Cotton
• Publisher: Faithlife
• Print Publication Date: 2015
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Era: era:reformation
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. 1 John › Commentaries
• Resource ID: LLS:JOHNCOTTON
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:09:51Z

About John Cotton

John Cotton (December 29, 1585 – December 23, 1652) was an English clergyman and colonist. He was a principal figure among the New England Puritan ministers, who also included Thomas Hooker, Increase Mather (who became his son-in-law), John Davenport, and Thomas Shepard and John Norton, who wrote his first biography. Cotton was the grandfather of Cotton Mather, who was named after him.