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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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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.
Thirdly, you take your aim amiss also (though not in so great measure as in the former) in the phrases: For even of the Pharisees some were Elect, witness holy Paul; Who abused his zeal of the Law more foully then he? even to the persecuting of Gods Church? yet was not the true treasure denied to him, and that in the highest measure. And as for Reprobates, if you think their unfaithfulness in the use of their wealth, was the cause why mercy was denied them: for the disproof hereof, I refer me to my former arguments.
Thirdly, you take your aime amisse also (though not in so great measure as in the former) in the phrases: For even of the Pharisees some were Elect, witnesse holy Paul; Who abused his zeale of the Law more foully then hee? even to the persecuring of Gods Church? yet was not the true treasure denyed to him, and that in the highest measure. And as for Reprobates, if you think their unfaithfulnesse in the use of their wealth, was the cause why mercy was denyed them: for the disproofe hereof, I refer mee to my former arguments.