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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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When once we have conceived an opinion, we are very prone to take hold of every thing that carrieth any show of favouring it, howsoever 1it proves in the issue. Be it that he hath a preeminence in all things and a priority; but will you extend this to such things as are not capable of priority? Is it not confessed that God doth not purpose one thing before another in time? Is not the predestination of Christ, and of the elect all one act in God? only as God ordereth one thing for another, so God purposeth one thing for another. Now which hath the preeminence in Gods predestination, whether that which is purposed for another, or that for which another thing is purposed? I presume you will say, that for which another thing is purposed. why, then consider, whether the salvation of the elect be purposed for the incarnation & passion of the Son of God, or the incarnation & passion of the Son of God purposed for the salvation of Gods elect.
When once we have conceived an opinion, we are very prone to take hold of every thing that carrieth any shew of favouring it, howsoever 1it proves in the issue. Be it that he hath a preheminence in all things and a priority; but will you extend this to such things as are not capable of priority? Is it not confest that God doth not purpose one thing before another in time? Is not the predestination of Christ, and of the elect all one act in God? onely as God ordereth one thing for another, so God purposeth one thing for another. Now which hath the preheminence in Gods predestination, whether that which is purposed for another, or that for which another thing is purposed? I presume you will say, that for which another thing is purposed. why, then cōsider, whether the salvation of the elect be purposed for the incarnation & passion of the Son of God, or the incarnation & passion of the Son of God purposed for the salvation of Gods elect.
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