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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To subject Esau, as a servant to Jacob, doth not reprobate Esau, but puts him into the condition of the world of mankind: who together with the rest of the Creatures are made to be servants to the Church of the elect, and to the members of it.
To subject Esau, as a servant to Jacob, doth not reprobate Esau, but puts him into the condition of the world of mankind: who together with the rest of the Creatures are made to bee servants to the Church of the elect, and to the members of it.
But grant Gods hatred of Esau, and making him a servant to his underling, argueth no less then a purpose to pass him by, in respect of communicating glory unto him out of grace. And for my part thus far I yield, that it may well argue a purpose of God to pass by him, in respect of communicating glory to him out of grace, that grace I mean, whereby he hath made us accepted in his beloved: for this grace or free love, is made Jacobs preeminence, and is denied to Esau, and though it put him into the estate of a servant to his elect brother, and so ⟨p. 178⟩into the condition of the world of mankind, yet it doth not reprobate him, or argue a purpose to pass him by in respect of communicating life or glory at all unto him, but implieth only a purpose to deal with him in justice, viz. to give him life or death according to his works, as I have already showed in the answer to the former doubt, and shall have occasion more fully to declare it, in the end of this.
But grant Gods hatred of Esau, and making him a servant to his underling, argueth no lesse then a purpose to passe him by, in respect of communicating glory unto him out of grace. And for my part thus farre I yeeld, that it may well argue a purpose of God to passe by him, in respect of communicating glory to him out of grace, that grace I mean, whereby hee hath made us accepted in his beloved: for this grace or free love, is made Jacobs preheminence, and is denyed to Esau, and though it put him into the estate of a servant to his elect brother, and so ⟨p. 178⟩