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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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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.
6. Nay, consider whether the text it self be not against it, He is the head of the body of the Church, the beginning, the first begotten of the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence. Now consider, was Christ made the head of the body of the Church; was he the first begotten of the dead, to this end, that he might have the preeminence in predestination?
6. Nay, consider whether the text it selfe be not against it, He is the head of the body of the Church, the beginning, the first begotten of the dead, that in all things he might have the preheminence. Now consider, was Christ made the head of the body of the Church; was he the first begotten of the dead, to this end, that he might have the preheminence in predestination?