Excerpt from The First General Epistle of St. John the Apostle: Unfolded and Applied And thus, with what brevity I could, I have unfolded the title page. Time will not now give me leave to enter upon the book itself. But I hope what hath been already said will prove a good preparative to my ensuing discourses, both to give some light for the knowledge of, and cause some heat of love towards this parcel of, holy writ. And my desire to you (with which I shall conclude), is, that though I cannot begin to handle, you would begin to read it and as in itself it is a familiar kind of writing, so by frequent perusing make it familiar to you and as the penman of it lay in Christ's bosom, so it may lie in your bosom, to be both your comforter and counsellor till you come to rest in Abraham's bosom to all eternity. Amen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.