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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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5. I grant, before they had done good or evil, Rom 9. is as much as before the consideration of any good or evil done by them. The text it self doth bespeak this meaning. But will it follow that, because before they had done good or evil, Rom. 9. is as much as before the consideration of their good or evil works; the text bespeaking that sense, therefore, 1 Pet. 1. 20. where Christ is said to be ordained before the world, it is as much as to say, Christ was ordained before the consideration of the creation and fall; the text bespeaking no such interpretation, but rather resisting it, by the comparison made betwixt the ordination of Christ, and the declaration of Christ; the one said to be made before the foundations of the world, the other said to be made in these last times? as much as to say the one before all times, the other not till these last times: Times with times compared, not consideration of the creation and fall with these last times.
5. I grant, before they had done good or evill, Rom 9. is as much as before the consideration of any good or evill done by them. The text it selfe doth bespeake this meaning. But will it follow that, because before they had done good or evill, Rom. 9. is as much as before the consideration of their good or evill workes; the text bespeaking that sense, therefore, 1 Pet. 1. 20. where Christ is said to be ordained before the world, it is as much as to say, Christ was ordained before the consideration of the creation and fall; the text bespeaking no such interpretation, but rather resisting it, by the comparison made betwixt the ordination of Christ, and the declaration of Christ; the one said to be made before the foundations of the world, the other said to be made in these last times? as much as to say the one before all times, the other not till these last times: Times with times compared, not consideration of the creation and fall with these last times.