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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 if it be objected, how may it appear this will of God to give life to the world, upon condition of their obedience, is serious and not pretended; since if he would he is able to give them such hearts as would cause them to obey him?
But if it be objected, how may it appeare this will of God to give life to the world, upon condition of their obedience, is serious and not pretended; since if hee would hee is able to give them such hearts as would cause them to obey him?
I answer; That God willeth it seriously, appears manifestly by the declaration of his will already mentioned; viz. his Oath, his Covenant, yea, and the works of each Person in the Trinity, tending to this end, to give life to the world: all which it were blasphemy to think they were not done seriously. Doth the living God swear, and not swear in earnest? God forbid. Doth God enter into Covenant with his creature, and intend no performance of promise according to his Covenant? far be it from the just and holy God to do it, and from us to imagine it. Shall we think each Person in the Trinity slighteth the work of the salvation of mankind, because mankind slighteth to work out their salvation with the Trinity?
I answer; That God willeth it seriously, appeares manifestly by the declaration of his will already mentioned; viz. his Oath, his Covenant, yea, and the workes of each Person in the Trinity, tending to this end, to give life to the world: all which it were blasphemy to thinke they were not done seriously. Doth the living God sweare, and not sweare in earnest? God forbid. Doth God enter into Covenant with his creature, and intend no performance of promise according to his Covenant? farre be it from the just and holy God to doe it, and from us to imagine it. Shall we think each Person in the Trinity slighteth the worke of the salvation of mankind, because mankind slighteth to worke out their salvation with the Trinity?