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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.
Now I would easily grant, that before Esau had done good or evil, God so hated him, as that he did not communicate to him that fellowship with Christ, which by Gods election and donation the members of the body have with him their head in Gods account, even before the world was. Neither did God vouchsafe that plentiful communication of his free grace unto him, as might in time by a real actual power draw him to Christ and to live by him: Yea God was pleased to set him in a state further remote, and separate from him then his elect brother: Even in the estate of a servant to the elect: and in stead of communicating free grace, he purposed to deal with him rather according to his works, by a covenant of Justice; For both these are implied in Gods putting of Esau into the state of a servant.
Now I would easily grant, that before Esau had done good or evill, God so hated him, as that hee did not communicate to him that fellowship with Christ, which by Gods election and donation the members of the body have with him their head in Gods account, even before the world was. Neither did God vouchsafe that plentifull communication of his free grace unto him, as might in time by a reall actuall power draw him to Christ and to live by him: Yea God was pleased to set him in a state further remote, and separate from him then his elect brother: Even in the estate of a servant to the elect: and in stead of communicating free grace, hee purposed to deale with him rather according to his works, by a covenant of Justice; For both these are implyed in Gods putting of Esau into the state of a servant.
First, the denial of such grace and fatherly love to him as is reserved for children.
First, the denyall of such grace and fatherly love to him as is reserved for children.
Secondly, the (not) refusing of him to just dealing, such as is due to servants according to their works.