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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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And no man makes question, but the word of God sufficiently performs its part, in exhortation to faith, to repentance, to prayer: but the Pharisees despised this, and so do most; and God is blameless. But of any power that they have to believe, repent, and pray, upon the doing whereof they should obtain life, your self are content to say nothing at all; but keep your self unto general phrases, which are very apt to deceive us; and this is the course not only of them that are in love with their own errors; but with good men also, when out of a desire to justify God, and not content with that simplicity of satisfaction which is laid forth unto us in holy Scripture, and seems harsh to flesh and blood, making them cry out, Durus est hic sermo, they shape unto themselves other courses, more convenient (as they think) to give satisfaction; yet not so much unto themselves, as unto others: but all in vain; for flesh and blood will receive no satisfaction in the plain truth of God.
And no man makes question, but the word of God sufficiently performes its part, in exhortation to faith, to repentance, to prayer: but the Pharisees despised this, and so doe most; and God is blamelesse. But of any power that they have to beleeve, repent, and pray, upon the doing whereof they should obtaine life, your selfe are content to say nothing at all; but keep your selfe unto generall phrases, which are very apt to deceive us; and this is the course not onely of them that are in love with their owne errors; but with good men also, when out of a desire to justifie God, and not content with that simplicity of satisfaction which is laid forth unto us in holy Scripture, and seemes harsh to flesh and bloud, making them cry out, Durus est hic sermo, they shape unto themselves other courses, more convenient (as they thinke) to give satisfaction; yet not so much unto themselves, as unto others: but all in vaine; for flesh and bloud will receive no satisfaction in the plaine truth of God.
A third Reason then to prove that God purposed life to the 1world, upon condition of their obedience and repentance, is taken from the end God aimed at: As he declares himself, to offer