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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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4. But let it run in the neuter gender, of all things, as Beza confesseth it may be so taken, potest quidem hoc accipi neutro genere, quum in proximo versiculo scribat; yet what meaning doth he make of it but this, vera est (saith he) haec universalis sententia, Christum inter omnia sine ulla exception eminere? making it signify still preeminence above or amongst all things, but not in all things.
4. But let it run in the neuter gender, of all things, as Beza confesseth it may be so taken, potest quidem hoc accipi neutro genere, quum in proximo versiculo scribat; yet what meaning doth he make of it but this, vera est (saith he) haec universalis sententia, Christum inter omnia sine ulla exceptione eminere? making it signifie still preheminence above or amongst all things, but not in all things.
5. Taking it as in all things, Ambrose interprets it thus, ut semper in omni vita sit primus & Princeps: in gratia & gloria (saith Aquinas:) In genesi & resurrectione, (saith Cajetan:) Tam in visibilibus quam in invisibilibus creaturis, (saith Hierome.) Some practical Divines extend it far, interpreting it according to our English translation; as, first in time, first in order, first in the dignity of the person, first in degree, first in government, first in acceptation with God, first effectively as the cause of all the respect, order, and excellency in others, none extending it to predestination.
5. Taking it as in all things, Ambrose interprets it thus, ut semper in omni vita sit primus & Princeps: in gratia & gloria (saith Aquinas:) In genesi & resurrectione, (saith Cajetan:) Tam in visibilibus quam in invisibilibus creaturis, (saith Hierome.) Some practicall Divines extend it farre, interpreting it according to our English translation; as, first in time, first in order, first in the dignitie of the person, first in degree, first in government, first in acceptation with God, first effectively as the cause of all the respect, order, and excellency in others, none extending it to predestination.