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…

So that we need not to be put to deny the sufficiency of Gods word to those ends whereunto God hath given it, which is to instruct in all points of Faith and duties of life; and to admonish us to give obedience unto it, and reprove them that do not; and consequently to take away all excuse for want of any of these gracious operations. And thus it is sufficient ex parte, Dei, and ex parte hominum too, as for God to admonish thereby, and men to be admonished and instructed.

So that wee need not to bee put to deny the sufficiency of Gods word to those ends whereunto God hath given it, which is to instruct in all points of Faith and duties of life; and to admonish us to give obedience unto it, and reprove them that doe not; and consequently to take away all excuse for want of any of these gratious operations. And thus it is sufficient ex parte, Dei, and ex parte hominum too, as for God to admonish thereby, and men to bee admonished and instructed.

But otherwise to require any thing on mans part to add sufficiency to God, is too too absurd.

But otherwise to require any thing on mans part to adde sufficiency to God, is too too absurd.

For whether man doth yield obedience, the word is never a whit the more sufficient, or whether he yields not obedience, the word is never the less sufficient.

For whether man doth yeeld obedience, the word is never a whit the more sufficient, or whether hee yeelds not obedience, the word is never the lesse sufficient.