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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 1: QUESTION. 1.
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Christ is said in all things to have a preeminence, and God is said to dispose and carry his Counsels and ways towards the Church, 1that it might appear, Christ in all things to have the preeminence. God dealeth with us according to the Image of his dealing with him. 2And therefore in the Counsel of God, Christ had the preeminence to be first purposed, and the elect in him, and both them, and the other creatures for him, that so he might be the first borne among many brethren. Its accounted somewhat a monstrous and unnatural conception, the feet to be conceived in the womb before the head: so were it alike unmeet and preposterous course, the members of Christ to be first thought upon, and conceived in the womb of the Counsel of Gods predestination, before the head Christ. If God ⟨p. 12⟩should have had no thought of the advancement of Christ man to the fellowship of the second person to become man, till upon the presupposall of the fall of Adam; then were we not created for Christ, but Christ for us, contrary to that of the Apostle; And so Christ 3shall be brought into the world, as it were, ens per accidens, a thing by accident, upon occasion of the fall.
Christ is said in all things to have a preheminence, and God is said to dispose and carry his Counsels and waies towards the Church, 1that it might appeare, Christ in all things to have the preheminence. God dealeth with us according to the Image of his dealing with him. 2And therfore in the Counsell of God, Christ had the preheminence to be first purposed, and the elect in him, and both them, and the other creatures for him, that so he might bee the first borne among many brethren. Its accounted somewhat a monstrous and unnaturall conception, the feet to be conceived in the wombe before the head: so were it alike unmeet and preposterous course, the members of Christ to be first thought upon, and conceived in the wombe of the Counsell of Gods predestination, before the head Christ. If God