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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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You say, God leads them to repentance to save them from the pit.
I answer this leading to repentance, Rom. 2. is only his sparing them in their sins, and admonishing them to repent; and this we say is done to the Reprobates, not with any purpose to bring them to repentance: for if God had any such purpose, he would not deprive them of those helps without which none can come to repentance as your self profess he doth: and if he had any such purpose to bring them to repentance ⟨p. 232⟩and yet doth not, it followeth that he cannot.
I answer this leading to repentance, Rom. 2. is onely his sparing them in their sins, and admonishing them to repent; and this wee say is done to the Reprobates, not with any purpose to bring them to repentance: for if God had any such purpose, hee would not deprive them of those helpes without which none can come to repentance as your self professe hee doth: and if hee had any such purpose to bring them to repentance ⟨p. 232⟩and yet doth not, it followeth that hee cannot.
And if he hath any such purpose, either this purpose must continue still in God, even after their damnation, or otherwise God must be charged with mutability, all which you consider not, much less accommodate any tolerable answer thereto.
And if hee hath any such purpose, either this purpose must continue still in God, even after their damnation, or otherwise God must bee charged with mutability, all which you consider not, much lesse accommodate any tolerable answer thereto.