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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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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.
The fifteenth is Job 33. 14. to the 18. there we read that God speaketh once and twice, and one seeth it not, even in dreams and visions of the night. 15. When this will not serve the turn, he opens ⟨p. 223⟩the ears of man, even by the corrections which he hath sealed, ver. 16. and that which God aims at in this is, That he might cause man to turn away from his enterprise, and that he might hide the pride of man, ver. 17. and keep back his soul from the pit, and that his life should not pass by the Sword, ver. 18. All this represents the power of Gods grace in overcoming the hardness of mans heart, together with the wisdom of God, proceeding various ways to the same end, an instance whereof we have in Manasseh. But as for any power in man to do any more good then he doth in seeking after the Lord, here is not the least indication, much less to justify the distinction here devised by you.
The fifteenth is Job 33. 14. to the 18. there wee read that God speaketh once and twice, and one seeth it not, even in dreams and visions of the night. 15. When this will not serve the turn, hee opens ⟨p. 223⟩