1 John 2

^{1 !} Christ is our Aduocate.

^{1 a} Christ is our onelie Aduocate and atonement: for the office of intercession and redemption are joyned together.

^{2 b} That is, of them which haue embraced the Gospel by faith in all ages, degrees, & places: for there is no saluation without Christ.

^{3 c} That is, by faith and so obey him: for knowledge can not be without obedience.

^{5 d} Whereby he loueth God: so that to loue God is to obey his worde.

^{7 f} Loue thy neighbour as thy self, is the olde commandement taught in the Law: but when Christ saith, So loue one another as I haue loued you, he giueth a newe commandement onely as touching the forme, but not as touching the nature or substance of the precept.

^{7 e} When the Lawe was giuen.

^{7 /} Or, doctrine.

^{10 !} Of true loue, & how it is tried.

^{12 g} He nameth all the faithful, children, as he being their spiritual father, attributing to olde men knowledge of great things, to yong men strength, to children obedience & reuerence to their gouernours.

^{12 h} For Christs sake.

^{13 /} Or, the deuil.

^{14 /} Or, the deuil.

^{15 i} As it is aduersarie to God.

^{16 m} Ambition & pride.

^{16 k} To liue in pleasure.

^{17 l} Wantonnes.

^{18 !} To beware of Antichrist.

^{19 n} Which semed to haue bene of our nomber, because for a time they occupied a place in the Church.

^{20 o} The grace of the holie Gost.

^{20 p} Which is Christ.

^{21 q} In this Epistle which I now write vnto you.

^{22 r} He is that taketh away or diminisheth ether of the natures in Christ, or he that confoundeth or separateth them, els he that putteth not difference betwene the persone of the Sonne, & also, he that beleueth not, to haue remission of sinnes by his onely sacrifice, denieth Christ to be the true Messias.

^{23 /} But he that confesseth the Sonne, hathe also the Father.

^{23 s} Then the infideles worship not the true God.

^{27 t} Christ communicateth him self vnto you and teacheth you by the holie Gost & his ministers.

^{27 /} Or, in Christ.

^{28 u} By this name he meaneth the whole Church of Christ in general.