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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.
Answ. The want of considering this point, hath as I conceive it, entangled the Doctrine of predestination with needless difficulties, and exposed it to rash and hard censures in the minds of gain-sayers. Then it may be said there was no cause of that objection, Why complaineth he, and who can resist his will? or at least of that answer to, why doth he yet complain? Rom. 9. 20, 21, 22.
Answ. The want of considering this point, hath as I conceive it, intangled the Doctrine of predestination with needlesse difficulties, and exposed it to rash and hard censures in the mindes of gain-sayers. Then it may bee said there was no cause of that objection, Why complaineth hee, and who can resist his will? or at least of that answer to, why doth hee yet complaine? Rom. 9. 20, 21, 22.
I answer, that objection propounded by the Apostle, Why doth he yet complain? for who hath resisted his will? doth not arise ⟨p. 199⟩upon occasion of Gods preferring Jacob before Esau, but upon the latter part of the Corollary going immediately before, v. 18. Whom he will he hardeneth; for if it be God that hardeneth the creature, and that according to his absolute will, then might the hardened creature say, what fault is there in me to be so hardened? Why doth God complain of me for my hardness and impenitency? Who hath resisted his will?
I answer, that objection propounded by the Apostle, Why doth hee yet complain? for who hath resisted his will? doth not arise ⟨p. 199⟩upon occasion of Gods preferring Jacob before Esau, but upon the latter part of the Corollary going immediately before, v. 18. Whom hee will hee hardneth; for if it bee God that hardneth the creature, and that according to his absolute will, then might the hardned creature say, what fault is there in mee to bee so hardned? Why doth God complain of mee for my hardnesse and impenitency? Who hath resisted his will?