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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 1: QUESTION. 1.
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QUESTION. 1.
How may it appear that there was any thought of the incarnation of the second person, or advancement of the man Christ, before the presupposall of the fall of man, and his own humiliation.
HOw may it appeare that there was any thought of the incarnation of the second person, or advancement of the man Christ, before the presupposall of the fall of man, and his owne humiliation.
God doth not propose one thing before another in time, all things are at once present with him: But the things purposed by God, God 1doth order them one for another, and so is he rightly said to purpose one thing in order before another. Now in order of things, God hath first purposed the glorifying of himself, yea, and the glorifying of himself in Christ too, before he presupposed the fall of man, and humiliation of Christ; as may appear, &c.
God doth not propose one thing before another in time, all things are at once present with him: But the things purposed by God, God 1doth order them one for another, and so is he rightly said to purpose one thing in order before another. Now in order of things, God hath first purposed the glorifying of himselfe, yea, and the glorifying of himselfe in Christ too, before he presupposed the fall of man, and humiliation of Christ; as may appeare, &c.