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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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5 To the cavilling froward spirit, this doctrine cutteth off all 1occasions of reviling and slandering the orthodox truth of God, and against them cleareth the equity of the ways of God.
5 To the cavilling froward spirit, this doctrine cutteth off all 1occasions of reviling and slandering the orthodox truth of God, and against them cleareth the equitie of the wayes of God.
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6 To all sorts of men, yea, to men and Angels, it ministereth 1much matter of admiring and adoring the wonderful riches of Gods grace to Christ the head of the Church, and in him to all the elect his members, the absolute power of his sovereignty in dealing far otherwise with the world, the unsearchable depth of his wisdom in the order and end of all his ways, the unsearchable depth of his patience, bounty and long-suffering towards all men, and manifest equity of his justice, even to those who abuse his patience and bounty to their own perdition.
6 To all sorts of men, yea, to men and Angels, it ministreth 1much matter of admiring and adoring the wonderfull riches of Gods grace to Christ the head of the Church, and in him to all the elect his members, the absolute power of his soveraigntie in dealing farre otherwise with the world, the unsearchable depth of his wisdome in the order and end of all his wayes, the unsearchable depth of his patience, bountie and long-suffering towards all men, and manifest equitie of his justice, even to those who abuse his patience and bountie to their owne perdition.