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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.
Might you not as well infer, that it is in the power of man to make him a new heart, because God calls upon him to make him a new heart? Austin was wont to say and advise rather in this manner. In praecepto cognosce quid debe as habere, in correptione cognosce tuo te vitio non habere, in oratione cognosce unde possis habere. In Gods precept know what you ought to have, in his rebuke take notice that through your fault you have it not, in prayer know whence you may have it.
Might you not as well infer, that it is in the power of man to make him a new heart, because God cals upon him to make him a new heart? Austin was wont to say and advise rather in this manner. In praecepto cognosce quid debe as habere, in correptione cognosce tuo te vitio non habere, in oratione cognosce unde possis habere. In Gods precept know what you ought to have, in his rebuke take notice that through your fault you have it not, in prayer know whence you may have it.
The twelfth is out of 2 Chron. 36. 15, 16. And the Lord God of their fathers sent unto them by his Messengers, rising early and sending, for he had compassion on his people, and on his habitation. 16. But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his Prophets, until the wrath of God rose against his people, and till there was no remedy. I do not deny but that it was in their power not to misuse the Prophets, not to mock his Messengers, but do you not think, that amongst these naughty figs, some were nothing so bad, and yet did not the wrath of God come upon them as well as upon others.
The twelfth is out of 2 Chron. 36. 15, 16. And the Lord God of their fathers sent unto them by his Messengers, rising early and sending, for hee had compassion on his people, and on his habitation. 16. But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his Prophets, untill the wrath of God rose against his people, and till there was no remedy. I doe not deny but that it was in their power not to misuse the Prophets, not to mock his Messengers, but doe you not think, that amongst these naughty figges, some were nothing so bad, and yet did not the wrath of God come upon them as well as upon others.