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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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That God hath some willingness to glorify his distributive 1justice, as well as vindicative, in rewarding the world with life upon condition of obedience and repentance, as well as with death upon condition of disobedience and impenitency, appeareth from Gods Oath; As I live (saith the Lord) I have no pleasure in the wicked mans death; but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live. The usual answer made to this place seems to once to strain the word beyond his native simplicity.
That God hath some willingnesse to glorifie his distributive 1justice, as well as vindicative, in rewarding the world with life upon condition of obedience and repentance, as well as with death upon condition of disobedience and impenitency, appeareth from Gods Oath; As I live (saith the Lord) I have no pleasure in the wicked mans death; but rather that hee should turne from his wickednesse and live. The usuall answer made to this place seems to once to straine the word beyond his native simplicity.
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1. Some say that God speaks not of all the wicked, but of some of the elect only, who in time are brought on to repentance: but the truth is, he speaketh of such wicked men, whereof some dye in their sins, as is evident by the parallel place.
1. Some say that God speakes not of all the wicked, but of some of the elect onely, who in time are brought on to repentance: but the truth is, hee speaketh of such wicked men, whereof some dye in their sinnes, as is evident by the parallel place.