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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.
Again, if Gods purpose to punish with condemnation, must necessarily presuppose foresight of sin in God; by the same reason Gods purpose to reward with salvation must necessarily presuppose a foresight in God of obedience, and in this case, what shall become of the freeness of Gods grace in election? not to trouble you with the profession of Aquinas, that never any man was so mad as to introduce a cause of predestination, quoad actum praedestinantis. The case is the same with introducing a cause of reprobation, quoad actum reprobantis. For the ground of this is, only because there can be no cause of the will of God, quoad actum volentis. Now reprobation is well known to be an act of Gods will, as well as predestination.
Again, if Gods purpose to punish with condemnation, must necessarily presuppose foresight of sin in God; by the same reason Gods purpose to reward with salvation must necessarily presuppose a foresight in God of obedience, and in this case, what shall become of the freenesse of Gods grace in election? not to trouble you with the profession of Aquinas, that never any man was so mad as to introduce a cause of predestination, quoad actum praedestinantis. The case is the same with introducing a cause of reprobation, quoad actum reprobantis. For the ground of this is, only because there can bee no cause of the will of God, quoad actum volentis. Now reprobation is well known to bee an act of Gods will, as well as predestination.
Answer, But say further, that this hardening of Pharaoh, be an effect of the like hatred of Pharaoh as of Esau; neither is it said to depend on the sin of Pharaoh, but on the will of God, as mercy doth, as the first cause thereof.
Answer, But say further, that this hardning of Pharaoh, bee an effect of the like hatred of Pharaoh as of Esau; neither is it said to depend on the sin of Pharaoh, but on the will of God, as mercy doth, as the first cause thereof.