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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.
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yet it is in such a manner, as it requires study and deep contemplation, to attain to these invisible things of God, in the most indifferent measure: ⟨p. 213⟩But say, we have power, and all men have power to seek the Lord, that is, to search out those invisible things of God, which are made manifest by his Works, as many Naturalists have done; and to give instance: As Aristotle hath searched after an Ens primum, a first being; and hath found out immaterial substances, and amongst them a first mover, in the contemplation of whom the felicity of all the rest consists; and hath delivered strange conclusions concerning his Nature: Yet I deny that any man hath power natural, so to seek after the Lord, as to find mercy from him. To this purpose it is not enough to know him as the Author of Nature, but we must take forth, and know him as a Redeemer, and author of Grace. For I presume you will not say that Aristotle after his most studious inquisitions after the Lord, did find mercy from him.
yet it is in such a manner, as it requires study and deep contemplation, to attaine to these invisible things of God, in the most indifferent measure: ⟨p. 213⟩But say, wee have power, and all men have power to seek the Lord, that is, to search out those invisible things of God, which are made manifest by his Works, as many Naturalists have done; and to give instance: As Aristotle hath searched after an Ens primum, a first being; and hath found out immateriall substances, and amongst them a first mover, in the contemplation of whom the felicity of all the rest consists; and hath delivered strange conclusions concerning his Nature: Yet I deny that any man hath power naturall, so to seek after the Lord, as to finde mercy from him. To this purpose it is not enough to know him as the Authour of Nature, but wee must take forth, and know him as a Redeemer, and authour of Grace. For I presume you wil not say that Aristotle after his most studious inquisitions after the Lord, did finde mercy from him.