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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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The Jews resisted the Holy Ghost, despised the messengers and word of God, acknowledged not the day and means of 1their own peace; refusing him and all his benefits, preferring a murderer and false prophet before him, brought forth wild grapes of injustice and oppression instead of the sweet grapes of righteousness and judgement. In this they abused the talents ⟨p. 239⟩and means of Grace in a worse manner then could be excused, by any necessity or impotency of corrupt nature. Corrupt nature resisting not, but by these helps they might have avoided these sins which they fell into, and might have reached to the performance of these duties; for the neglect of which they are here reproved for coming short of […] Yea, Pilate himself would have brought forth better fruit, then some of these which the Jews yielded, but that the Jews themselves prevailed with him for worse.
The Jews resisted the Holy Ghost, despised the messengers and word of God, acknowledged not the day and meanes of 1their own peace; refusing him and all his benefits, preferring a murtherer and false prophet before him, brought forth wilde grapes of injustice and oppression instead of the sweet grapes of righteousnesse and judgement. In this they abused the talents ⟨p. 239⟩and meanes of Grace in a worse manner then could bee excused, by any necessity or impotency of corrupt nature. Corrupt nature resisting not, but by these helps they might have avoided these sinnes which they fell into, and might have reached to the performance of these duties; for the neglect of which they are here reproved for comming short of 〈…〉 Yea, Pilate himselfe would have brought forth better fruit, then some of these which the Jews yeelded, but that the Jews themselves prevailed with him for worse.