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Four godly and learned treatises Entitled, I. A remedy against covetousness. II. An elegant…Foure godly and learned treatises Intituled, I. A remedy against covetousnesse. II. An elegant…
Four godly and learned treatises Entitled, I. A remedy against covetousness. II. An elegant and lively description of spiritual death and life. III. The doctrine of self-denial. IV. Upon the sacrament of the Lords Supper. Delivered in sundry sermons, by that late famous preacher, and worthy instrument of Gods glory, John Preston, Doctor of Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty; master of Emanuel College, and sometime preacher of Lincolns Inn.Foure godly and learned treatises Intituled, I. A remedy against covetousnesse. II. An elegant and lively description of spirituall death and life. III. The doctrine of selfe-deniall. IV. Vpon the sacrament of the Lords Supper. Delivered in sundry sermons, by that late famous preacher, and worthy instrument of Gods glory, Iohn Preston, Doctor of Divinitie, chaplaine in ordinarie to his Majestie; master of Emanuel Colledge, and sometime preacher of Lincolnes Inne.
London: printed by Thomas for Michael Sparke, 1633
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Secondly, if there should be an universal grace, the Saints would be no more beholding to God, than other men; if God give all alike to all, it should not be God, but themselves that put the difference.
Secondly, if there should bee an universall grace, the Saints would be no more beholding to God, than other men; if God give all alike to all, it should not bee God, but themselves that put the difference.
Thirdly, if there were that general sufficiency, ⟨p. 65⟩it would take away all election: there might then be prescience, but no election, no predestination to death or life.
Thirdly, if there were that generall sufficiency, ⟨p. 65⟩it would take away all election: there might then be prescience, but no election, no predestination to death or life.
Fourthly, if there were a general grace, what is the reason that Paul made it such matter of difficulty to answer that question of election, Rom. 9. If Aristotle and other Heathen, if every one have such a general sufficiency, Paul would not have made such a scrupulous answer,1 and have cried out of the depth.