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A treatise of Mr. Cottons clearing certain doubts concerning predestination together with an examination…A treatise of Mr. Cottons clearing certaine doubts concerning predestination together with an examination…
A treatise of Mr. Cottons clearing certain doubts concerning predestination together with an examination thereof / written by William Twice ...A treatise of Mr. Cottons clearing certaine doubts concerning predestination together with an examination thereof / written by William Twisse ...
London: printed by J.D. for Andrew Crook, 1646
AN EXAMINATION of a Treatise written by Master Cotton, for the clea… › QUESTION •.
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2. That to restore them, who were los• in Adam, he sent forth the Lord Jesus, to be obedient to the death for them, and by his death, to redeem them as effectually, as if they themselves had suffered in their own persons.
2. That to restore them, who were los• in Adam, he sent forth the Lord Jesus, to be obedient to the death for them, and by his death, to redeeme them as effectually, as if they themselves had suffered in their owne persons.
3. That in the fullness of time, he calleth each one of them, by an effectual and invincible drawing, even by such an almighty work of his quickening spirit, as he did put forth in raising Christ from the dead.
3. That in the fulnesse of time, he calleth each one of them, by an effectuall and invincible drawing, even by such an almighty worke of his quickning spirit, as he did put forth in raising Christ from the dead.
4. That those, whom he so calleth, he preserveth by some powerful work of his spirit to himself in Christ, so as they never fall from him totally, or finally: Only herein take it not amiss, if I place the subject of Election in Persons considered in Christ, before the world, or themselves were, and not in massa corrupta, with the late venerable Synod. For though herein they follow Augustine, and Zanchy, and some others; yet have they dissented from the chief instruments, of the reformation of our Religion. And, with reverence I speak it, as I am led to conceive, that it need not trouble any, if, taking Christ to be the head of the elect, I conceive him to be first thought upon, and chosen, and we in him. Mr. Baynes, followeth the school in so expressing it; and the reasons delivered above in the first point, have carried me with them: and the difference lieth in opening the purpose of Reprobation. But see here how far I go with the stream, and, hen I go aside, how little, and upon what ground.