Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 John 4:17
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1 John4:17
17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of Judgment , because as he is, so are we in this world.
And by this means, (viz. of our Inwardness with God) doth our Love grow to that perfection, that we shall have the most fearless Freedom and Liberty of Spirit in the Judgment-day; our Hearts no way mis-giving to appear before him as a Judg, whose very Image we find upon our selves, he having before-hand made us such even in this World, tho in an infinitely inferior degree, as he is, Compositions of Love and Goodness. Or if the Day of Judgment should mean, as some conceive, of our Appearance before Humane Tribunals for his sake; such a Temper of Spirit must give us the same Boldness in that Case also.
Marginal references: Gr. love with us.; Jam. 2.13. Chap. 3.19, 21.
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