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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 1: QUESTION. 1.
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3. Before Abraham was I am; would you interpret it thus: Before the consideration of Abraham, I am? Before the Child shall have knowledge to eschew the evil, and to choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her Kings, is the meaning hereof, before the consideration of the Child's knowledge to eschew the evil and to choose the good?
3. Before Abraham was I am; would you interpret it thus: Before the consideration of Abraham, I am? Before the Child shall have knowledge to eschew the evill, and to choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her Kings, is the meaning hereof, before the consideration of the Childs knowledge to eschew the evill and to choose the good?
4. Is not this a manifest course to overthrow our best evidence of the eternity of election and Christs ordination? For what evidence ⟨p. 8⟩doth the word of God afford comparable to these? And we know that out of our selves some have risen, denying the eternity of Gods decrees: and shall we do them such acceptable service, as in blasting such evidences as these that make against them? Then let us go and interpret accordingly the Apostle, where he speaks of some thing promised [Greek or Hebrew], and say the meaning is, before the consideration of those [Greek or Hebrew], times consisting of many ages, or some thing in them, I know not what.1
4. Is not this a manifest course to overthrow our best evidence of the eternitie of election and Christs ordination? For what evidence ⟨p. 8⟩doth the word of God affoord comparable to these? And we know that out of our selves some have risen, denying the eternitie of Gods decrees: and shall we do them such acceptable service, as in blasting such evidences as these that make against them? Then let us goe and interpret accordingly the Apostle, where he speakes of some thing promised , and say the meaning is, before the consideration of those , times consisting of many ages, or some thing in them, I know not what.