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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 eighth is out of Mat. 23. 37, 38. How often would I have gathered thy children together, as the hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not? Behold your habitation is left unto you desolate, &c. What I pray you, is to be gathered under his wings? can it be less then to come unto him? nay, is it not to be healed by him? since as your self observe, healing ⟨p. 218⟩was under his wings: and if so, to come to Christ, is to be healed by him: can it be any thing less, then to believe and repent? And will you herehence infer that they had power thus to come under his wings, and consequently to believe and repent?
The eighth is out of Mat. 23. 37, 38. How often would I have gathered thy children together, as the hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and yee would not? Behold your habitation is left unto you desolate, &c. What I pray you, is to bee gathered under his wings? can it bee lesse then to come unto him? nay, is it not to bee healed by him? since as your selfe observe, healing ⟨p. 218⟩was under his wings: and if so, to come to Christ, is to bee healed by him: can it bee any thing lesse, then to beleeve and repent? And will you herehence inferre that they had power thus to come under his wings, and consequently to beleeve and repent?
And yet in this very place you profess that as touching all others except the Elect, God deprives them of those drawing and effectual means, without which none can come to Faith and Repentance. Nay, whatsoever it be, that lies in their power to perform besides, by the performing of it, do they come any whit nearer to the participation of Grace? I do not find you adventure to profess so much, for fear of falling into that which you call ungracious Pelagianism.