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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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But with this difference; some affect those opinions, which are most fit to humour flesh and blood: but your aim (I am persuaded) is only to take a fit course to justify God in his proceedings. Only you may be pleased to remember, that it is nothing fit, we should lie for God, as man doth for man, to gratify him.
But with this difference; some affect those opinions, which are most fit to humour flesh and blood: but your aime (I am perswaded) is onely to take a fit course to justifie God in his proceedings. Only you may bee pleased to remember, that it is nothing fit, wee should lie for God, as man doth for man, to gratifie him.
As for the other end here specified, of Leading to Repentance; this is neither appliable to that course of Gods providence, mentioned Act. 17. which is admonishing to seek the Lord, nor to that, Rom. 2. 14, 15. but to a course different from both, namely, the consideration of Gods patience and long-suffering, which yet without Gods word to inform us better, is far more fit to harden mens hearts in their sinful courses, then to bring them to repentance. Which is a good reason to persuade, that in this second Chapter to the Romans, the Apostle makes a transition from the Gentiles to the Jews, from them which were nurtured and disciplined only by Gods works, to them which were nurtured also by the Ministry of his word. That in Job 33. 17. 29. of with-drawing men from their courses, healing their pride, and saving their souls from the pit; You do not well to confound the courses taken for this there mentioned, with the bare administration of Gods providence in his works, or the writing of his Law in mens hearts, after a natural manner. For the courses there mentioned by dreams and visions, and by an interpreter, were in those days the only means of grace. And then Elihu speaks of Gods effectual ⟨p. 227⟩