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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.
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Secondly, you may ground upon this, that God expected they should bring forth sweet grapes, and upon such grounds you usually make Collections, and herehence you may infer, that therefore they had power to bring forth sweet grapes. But this consequent is untrue by your opinion; for sweet grapes must needs be grateful unto God, and no less then Faith and Repentance. But you confess that God deprives them of such drawing and effectual means without which none can come, and with which none ever failed to come to faith and repentance.
Secondly, you may ground upon this, that God expected they should bring forth sweet grapes, and upon such grounds you usually make Collections, and herehence you may infer, that therefore they had power to bring forth sweet grapes. But this consequent is untrue by your opinion; for sweet grapes must needs bee gratefull unto God, and no lesse then Faith and Repentance. But you confesse that God deprives them of such drawing and effectuall means without which none can come, and with which none ever failed to come to faith and repentance.
The third ground may be Gods resolution to lay his vineyard waste. And thence you may infer that they had power to avoid such sins as were the causes thereof. But consider, I pray you, is it not just with God to damn the world for infidelity and impenitency, and will you herehence infer that it was in their power to believe and repent? I presume you will not.
The third ground may bee Gods resolution to lay his vineyard waste. And thence you may infer that they had power to avoid such sins as were the causes thereof. But consider, I pray you, is it not just with God to damne the world for infidelity and impenitency, and will you herehence infer that it was in their power to beleeve and repent? I presume you will not.