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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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Secondly, by the same constitution, mercy should be denied to the Elect also. When you speak of the Gentiles (in this case) abusing the light of Nature, and given over to vile affections, you take your aim miserably amiss: For the Gentiles are not the men of the world in opposition to the Elect. But God forbid, that the Gentiles, and the men of the world, should be terms convertible in this kind, for then what should become of us?
Secondly, by the same constitution, mercy should bee denyed to the Elect also. When you speak of the Gentiles (in this case) abusing the light of Nature, and given over to vile affections, you take your aime miserably amisse: For the Gentiles are not the men of the world in opposition to the Elect. But God forbid, that the Gentiles, and the men of the world, should bee terms convertible in this kinde, for then what should become of us?
Certainly the number of Gods Elect is greater amongst the Gentiles, then among the Jews; and even of those that were given over to vile affections, some were Elect, as appears 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10, 11. And to say that the cause why God denies them mercy, was, because they abused the light of nature; I have freshly disproved this, and that evidently, as I presume the intelligent Reader will observe, though the contrary (I confess) be very plausible at the first sight, and before we come to the discussing of it.
Certainly the number of Gods Elect is greater amongst the Gentiles, then among the Jews; and even of those that were given over to vile affections, some were Elect, as appears 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10, 11. And to say that the cause why God denies them mercy, was, because they abused the light of nature; I have freshly disproved this, and that evidently, as I presume the intelligent Reader will observe, though the contrary (I confesse) bee very plausible at the first sight, and before wee come to the discussing of it.