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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
AN EXAMINATION of a Treatise written by Master Cotton, for the clea… › Question 5: The Fifth Doubt.
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.
The whole tenor of your Answer in clearing the Fifth 1Doubt looks this way, as if you maintained a sufficiency of power in those whom we account Reprobates to perform such things, upon the performance whereof they should be saved. I confess you do not make any express mention of Faith, but of obedience in general, and of repentance; which I presume you will acknowledge, will be inseparable from Faith. And that you do acknowledge a sufficiency in them to perform Obedience and Repentance requisite to Salvation, I prove thus:
The whole tenour of your Answer in clearing the Fifth 1Doubt looks this way, as if you maintained a sufficiency of power in those whom wee account Reprobates to perform such things, upon the performance whereof they should bee saved. I confesse you doe not make any expresse mention of Faith, but of obedience in generall, and of repentance; which I presume you will acknowledge, will bee inseparable from Faith. And that you doe acknowledge a sufficiency in them to perform Obedience and Repentance requifite to Salvation, I prove thus:
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You maintain a true desire in God, of their Salvation; and how can this stand with, the denial of such sufficiency as is in his power to grant?
You maintain a true desire in God, of their Salvation; and how can this stand with, the denyall of such sufficiency as is in his power to grant?
Again, You expressly maintain, that there is in God, a serious and fervent affection, not concerning their Salvation only, but their Conversion also. Which how it can stand with a denial of sufficient power to turn unto God, I comprehend not.