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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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By the way give me leave to wonder that you express your self in such a manner. But alas, what should we look for when the cause is no better? and yet a gracious respect unto a gracious end, namely, the justifying of Gods proceedings, hath cast a good man upon such a course. So dangerous a thing it is when a man is to seek in some particulars, not to content himself with acknowledgement thereof, and to wait upon God for a time of revelation, but to cut out his own way in seeking satisfaction.
By the way give mee leave to wonder that you expresse your self in such a manner. But alas, what should wee look for when the cause is no better? and yet a gracious respect unto a gracious end, namely, the justifying of Gods proceedings, hath cast a good man upon such a course. So dangerous a thing it is when a man is to seek in some particulars, not to content himself with acknowledgment thereof, and to waite upon God for a time of revelation, but to cut out his own way in seeking satisfaction.
Thirdly, the men of this world do not walk answerably to 1the means they have received, neither do they employ or use these talents to such advantage as they might. The Gentiles though they knew God, yet they glorified him not as God, but 2became unthankful and vain in their imaginations, they did not like to retain God in their knowledge: but to detain the truth in unrighteousness.
Thirdly, the men of this world doe not walk answerably to 1the means they have received, neither doe they imploy or use these talents to such advantage as they might. The Gentiles though they knew God, yet they glorified him not as God, but 2became unthankfull and vain in their imaginations, they did not like to retaine God in their knowledge: but to detain the truth in unrighteousnesse.