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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 •.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Object. If you say, Yes: Gods revealed will is that all should repent.
Resp. 1. I answer: It is not a part of Gods will revealed by hath, doctrine, or historical narration; but by a word of command.
Resp. 1. I answer: It is not a part of Gods will revealed by hath, doctrine, or historicall narration; but by a word of command.
2. I say, it is a part of his secret will too; I mean, of his good pleasure, that all men should repent: and it is his displeasure if they repent not.
2. I say, it is a part of his secret will too; I meane, of his good pleasure, that all men should repent: and it is his displeasure if they repent not.
3. But there is another part of his good will also, that if they repent they shall not perish; and this also revealed in his word: And thus the will of God revealed in a dist axiom is always consonant to his secret will, and never frustrated.