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…

It seems you think they are fitted to destruction by themselves, as if vasa the vessels did separate, and not Herus the Master rather. Sin alone makes a man obnoxious to condemnation as deserving it, and so there is sin in the best of Gods children, to drive them to confess, that if the Lord should be extreme to mark what is done amiss, none were able to abide it: Yet the sin of the Reprobates you confess God could prevent, and not preventing it, yet could cure it by the blood of Christ, so that though sin be granted to be a cause hereof, yet a more original cause (though nothing culpable) must be acknowledged to be the denial of Grace; as our Saviour budgeth not to profess to the faces of some; Ye therefore hear not my words, because ye are not of God, and Joh. 12. 40. Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah saith, He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts, ⟨p. 204⟩that they should not see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

It seems you think they are fitted to destruction by themselves, as if vasa the vessels did separate, and not Herus the Master rather. Sin alone makes a man obnoxious to condemnation as deserving it, and so there is sin in the best of Gods children, to drive them to confesse, that if the Lord should bee extream to mark what is done amisse, none were able to abide it: Yet the sin of the Reprobates you confesse God could prevent, and not preventing it, yet could cure it by the blood of Christ, so that though sin bee granted to bee a cause hereof, yet a more originall cause (though nothing culpable) must bee acknowledged to bee the deniall of Grace; as our Saviour budgeth not to professe to the faces of some; Yee therefore heare not my words, because yee are not of God, and Joh. 12. 40. Therefore they could not beleeve, because Esaias saith, Hee hath blinded their eyes, and hardned their hearts, ⟨p. 204⟩that they should not see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and should bee converted, and I should heale them.