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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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No, they shall know there hath been a Prophet among them.
And as for the ground of this his fore-knowledge, Isaiah manifesteth this to be Gods purpose to harden them, Esa. 6. 9. Go and say unto this people, ye shall hear indeed, but shall not understand, ye shall plainly see and not perceive; make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and convert, and I shall heal them. What place is here for such conceits of leaving men without excuse in a second place, and that by accident?
And as for the ground of this his fore-knowledge, Esay manifesteth this to bee Gods purpose to harden them, Esa. 6. 9. Goe and say unto this people, yee shall heare indeed, but shall not understand, yee shall plainly see and not perceive; make the heart of this people fat, and make their eares heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and understand with their hearts, and convert, and I shall heale them. What place is here for such conceites of leaving men without excuse in a second place, and that by accident?
Yet if you can prove that God did intend any better thing unto them in a first place, we shall be willing to confess that this comes in, in a second place.
Yet if you can prove that God did intend any better thing unto them in a first place, wee shall bee willing to confesse that this comes in, in a second place.