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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 amongst them of our selves, only this let me add; because, 1verum & bonum convertuntur, every divine truth is rich in profitable use: I have been confirmed in this truth, by the holy usefulness thereof to all sorts.
And amongst them of our selves, onely this let me adde; because, 1verum & bonum convertuntur, every divine truth is rich in profitable use: I have been confirmed in this truth, by the holy usefulnesse thereof to all sorts.
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1 To the Elect it maintaineth and cherisheth the freeness and 1largeness of the riches of the grace of God to them, whose salvation he carrieth along in all the ways of it, not according to their works, but according to his purpose and grace given them in Christ before the world was; under whom also are spread the everlasting arms of Gods almighty power and eternal love to guide and preserve them to his heavenly kingdom; which grace to us is so much the more magnified, when we behold the severity, and yet equity, of his justice towards the world of mankind; who though he love them as his creatures, yet he dealeth with them according to their works, which in the end windeth up in their woeful and just destruction.
1 To the Elect it maintaineth and cherisheth the freenesse and 1largenesse of the riches of the grace of God to them, whose salvation he carrieth along in all the wayes of it, not according to their works, but according to his purpose and grace given them in Christ before the world was; under whom also are spread the everlasting armes of Gods almightie power and eternall love to guide and preserve them to his heavenly kingdome; which grace to us is so much the more magnified, when wee behold the severitie, and yet equitie, of his justice towards the world of mankinde; who though hee love them as his creatures, yet he dealeth with them according to their workes, which in the end windeth up in their woefull and just destruction.