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…

What these needless difficulties are, wherewith the Doctrine ¹of predestination is entangled, by the Doctrine of them whom you impugn, you do not express, nor the hard and harsh censures which are passed upon it, that by due comparing of the one to the other, we might examine how justly such censures are pronounced.

What these needlesse difficulties are, wherewith the Doctrine ¹of predestination is intangled, by the Doctrine of them whom you impugne, you doe not expresse, nor the hard and harsh censures which are passed upon it, that by due comparing of the one to the other, wee might examine how justly such censures are pronounced.

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But of what nature your opinion is, how inconsistent in it self; on how little reason it is grounded; what consequences it draws after it, as also what causeless fears you raise unto ⟨p. 200⟩yourself; and above all, and which is worst of all, how you deal with Scripture in this argument, to serve your turn, I leave it to your conscience to judge, not to mention how this Discourse of yours is found to harden many in the way of error, and to offend others in the way of truth.

But of what nature your opinion is, how inconsistent in it self; on how little reason it is grounded; what consequences it draws after it, as also what causelesse fears you raise unto ⟨p. 200⟩yourself; and above all, and which is worst of all, how you deal with Scripture in this argument, to serve your turn, I leave it to your conscience to judge, not to mention how this Discourse of yours is found to harden many in the way of error, and to offend others in the way of truth.