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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.
As for the punishing of sin with sin, in the hardening of the creature, let us understand our selves aright, and not confound our selves when we need not. Is it a sober speech to say that God punisheth his denial of grace, with denial of Grace? or that God punisheth the sins of the heathen with the denial of that grace, which they never enjoyed?
As for the punishing of sin with sin, in the hardning of the creature, let us understand our selves aright, and not confound our selves when wee need not. Is it a sober speech to say that God punisheth his denyall of grace, with denyall of Grace? or that God punisheth the sins of the heathen with the denyall of that grace, which they never injoyed?
But as for the punishing of sin with sin, this is a large field of Gods providence consisting in divers kinds, and it is no way fit to consider them without distinction. God made the unnaturalness of Sennacherib's Sons, a scourge to chastise Sennacherib's unnaturalness towards God; one mans sinful act to be the punishment of another's. Here is one kind utterly distinct from that you treat of.
But as for the punishing of sin with sin, this is a large field of Gods providence consisting in divers kindes, and it is no way fit to consider them without distinction. God made the unnaturalnesse of Senacheribs Sons, a scourge to chastise Senacheribs unnaturalnesse towards God; one mans sinfull act to bee the punishment of anothers. Here is one kinde utterly distinct from that you treat of.
Again, some say, (and I think justly) and Austin acknowledgeth it, that every mans sin may be a just punishment unto him in respect of a former, as Rom. 1. 25. When men for their Idolatry were given over to vile affections, to defile themselves in abominable manner, it is said that herein they received in themselves, such recompense of their error, as was meet. So