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…

It is Arminius his superficiary conceit, that Hortatio non facta ¹sed spr•ta, makes a man inexcusable, not considering that admonition and instruction it self, takes away excuse, although none have need of excuse, but they that do evil. For the excuse is this, si scissem fecissem, or, si audivissem credidissem; now this excuse is manifestly removed by the preaching of the Gospel. And the word inexcusable, though it formally signify without excuse, yet withal it con-notates a condition delinquent, and such as had need of excuse, though bereaved thereof, and such a condition ariseth from the contempt of the means of grace.

It is Arminius his superficiary conceit, that Hortatio non facta ¹sed spr•ta, makes a man inexcusable, not considering that admonition and instruction it self, takes away excuse, although none have need of excuse, but they that doe evill. For the excuse is this, si scissem fecissem, or, si audivissem credidissem; now this excuse is manifestly removed by the preaching of the Gospel. And the word inexcusable, though it formally signifie without excuse, yet withall it con-notates a condition delinquent, and such as had need of excuse, though bereaved thereof, and such a condition ariseth from the contempt of the means of grace.

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Neither is this condition by accident, like as the neglecting ⟨p. 231⟩to make good use of them is not by accident.