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…

How may it appear that all have a sufficiency of coming to Christ, since no man can come without drawing? Joh. 6. 44. 65. and he who is drawn shall be raised to life; or since no man can come except it be given him of the Father. Which speech is a reason why we ought not to murmur or be offended if some believe not, Rom. 11. 7. and since none but the Elect by the means of help and power, Revelat. 2. 15.

HOw may it appeare that all have a sufficiency of comming to Christ, since no man can come without drawing? Joh. 6. 44. 65. and hee who is drawn shall bee raised to life; or since no man can come except it bee given him of the Father. Which speech is a reason why wee ought not to murmure or bee offended if some beleeve not, Rom. 11. 7. and since none but the Elect by the meanes of helpe and power, Revelat. 2. 15.

I no where say, nor ever thought that all men had a sufficiency ¹of power to believe or to come to Christ. Far be it from me to avouch such ungracious Pelagianism; But this I say, God giveth to the men of this world, this world, I say, as opposed to the elect, such means and helps of seeking after the Lord, and finding mercy from him, that they are sufficiently enabled by him to do much more then they do, that way, they are deprived of those drawing and effectual means without which none can come, and with which none ever failed to come to Faith and Repentance: Else how shall we understand these and sundry such like places of Scripture, Act. 17. 25, 26, 27. Rom. 1. 19