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…

2. As for the order of the other two, to wit the advancement of the man Christ, and his humiliation, thereof we are now to speak. And first I confess willingly, that his humiliation could not be intended before his exaltation, lest, being first in intention, it should be last in execution. I will further prove that his advancement or exaltation could not be intended before his humiliation. And first, this may be made evident as touching his greatest advancement, which was by incarnation; all advancement following was far inferior unto this. Now this advancement was not intended before his humiliation; for had it bin first in intention, it had bin last in execution, and consequently Christ had been first humbled, and afterwards his nature taken into an hypostatical union with the Son of God. Secondly I prove, that the advancement of his humane nature after his passion, was not in Gods intention before his humiliation. For I have already proved that the taking of the humane nature into an hypostatical union with the Son of God, was not before his humiliation: and you will not say that the advancement of the man Christ you speak of, was in Gods intention before his incarnation, therefore neither was it in Gods intention before his humiliation.

2. As for the order of the other two, to wit the advancement of the man Christ, and his humiliation, thereof we are now to speake. And first I confesse willingly, that his humiliation could not be intended before his exaltation, lest, being first in intention, it should be last in execution. I will further prove that his advancement or exaltation could not be intended before his humiliation. And first, this may be made evident as touching his greatest advancement, which was by incarnation; all advancement following was farre inferior unto this. Now this advancement was not intended before his humiliation; for had it bin first in intention, it had bin last in execution, and consequently Christ had been first humbled, and afterwards his nature taken into an hypostaticall union with the Sonne of God. Secondly I prove, that the advancement of his humane nature after his passion, was not in Gods intention before his humiliation. For I have already proved that the taking of the humane nature into an hypostaticall union with the Son of God, was not before his humiliation: and you will not say that the advancement of the man Christ you speake of, was in Gods intention before his incarnation, therefore neither was it in Gods intention before his humiliation.