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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 eleventh is Prov. 1. 20. to 30. Wisdom crieth, &c. 20 How ⟨p. 220⟩long will ye love foolishness? ver. 22. Turn you at my correction, ver. 23. Because I have called and ye have refused, &c. ver. 24. I will also laugh at your destruction, ver. 28. Will you herehence infer that they were enabled to turn, to hearken to wisdoms voice, and think to put a difference betwixt your opinion, and that of the Pelagians of old, by saying that though natural men have not power to believe and repent, yet they are enabled to do more good then they do, in the way of seeking the Lord and finding mercy from him? and pin upon every place you allege, such a distinction as this, which you no where manifest sufficiently to understand your self, as touching the latter part of it; So loath you are to show what are the particulars of seeking the Lord, they do attain to, and to what particulars further they might attain, and of what particulars they must necessarily fall short, for want of certain helps.
The eleventh is Prov. 1. 20. to 30. Wisdome cryeth, &c. 20 How ⟨p. 220⟩long will yee love foolishnesse? ver. 22. Turn you at my correction, ver. 23. Because I have called and yee have refused, &c. ver. 24. I will also laugh at your destruction, ver. 28. Will you herehence infer that they were enabled to turn, to hearken to wisdoms voyce, and think to put a difference betwixt your opinion, and that of the Pelagians of old, by saying that though naturall men have not power to beleeve and repent, yet they are inabled to doe more good then they doe, in the way of seeking the Lord and finding mercy from him? and pin upon every place you alledge, such a distinction as this, which you no where manifest sufficiently to understand your selfe, as touching the latter part of it; So loath you are to shew what are the particulars of seeking the Lord, they doe attain to, and to what particulars further they might attain, and of what particulars they must necessarily fall short, for want of certain helps.