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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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But two other things you see there be, wherein, I confess, I dissent from them; but with submission of my spirit to the guidance of the word, and the spirit of my brethren.
But two other things you see there bee, wherein, I confesse, I dissent from them; but with submission of my spirit to the guidance of the word, and the spirit of my brethren.
1. In the first act of positive Reprobation, that I do not acknowledge any unwillingness at all in God to reward the men of this world with life, upon any condition whatsoever.
1. In the first act of positive Reprobation, that I doe not acknowledge any unwillingnesse at all in God to reward the men of this world with life, upon any condition whatsoever.
2. In the second act of positive Reprobation, that I do conceive the decree of Reprobation to be conversant about the world, not as considered in massa primitus corrupta, as in the first fall of Adam; but as afterwards voluntarily falling from the means, either of grace in the second Adam, or of the knowledge of God in nature, by some acts of careless or wilful disobedience.
2. In the second act of positive Reprobation, that I doe conceive the decree of Reprobation to be conversant about the world, not as considered in massa primitus corrupta, as in the first fall of Adam; but as afterwards voluntarily falling from the meanes, either of grace in the second Adam, or of the knowledge of God in nature, by some acts of carelesse or wilfull disobedience.