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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.
I come to the thirteenth out of Hos. 11. 4. I led them with cords of a man, and with bands of love, and I was to them as he that taketh away the yoke from their jaws, and I laid their meat unto them. Was not such like the Lords dealing with the children of Israel, when he took them by the hand to bring them out of the Land of Egypt? Did he not lead them with the cords of Love? did he not take off the yoke from their jaws? did he not lay Manna before them? yet of them doth Moses profess, that notwithstanding all this; God gave them not an 1heart to perceive, nor eyes to see, nor ears to bear unto that day. And in this Text alleged, what colour is there to justify this your distinction; namely, that albeit God deprives Reprobates of those drawing and effectual means, without which none can come to faith and repentance, yet they are enabled by him to do much more then they do, in seeking after the Lord, and finding mercy from him.
I come to the thirteenth out of Hos. 11. 4. I led them with cords of a man, and with bands of love, and I was to them as hee that taketh away the yoke from their jawes, and I laid their meate unto them. Was not such like the Lords dealing with the children of Israel, when hee took them by the hand to bring them out of the Land of Egypt? Did hee not leade them with the cords of Love? did hee not take off the yoke from their jaws? did hee not lay Manna before them? yet of them doth Moses professe, that notwithstanding all this; God gave them not an 1heart to perceive, nor eyes to see, nor eares to beare unto that day. And in this Text alledged, what colour is there to justify this your distinction; namely, that albeit God deprives Reprobates of those drawing and effectuall means, without which none can come to faith and repentance, yet they are inabled by him to doe much more then they doe, in seeking after the Lord, and finding mercy from him.