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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 6: The Sixth Doubt.
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How may it appear, that the declaration of the equity and sufficiency of Gods justice is real, and not pretended; since all things are carried and come to pass, by an absolute and unconditional decree, and providence: exempli gratia, that fact, Act. 4. 28. & 2. 23.
HOw may it appeare, that the declaration of the equity and sufficiency of Gods justice is reall, and not pretended; since all things are carryed and come to passe, by an absolute and unconditionall decree, and providence: exempli gratia, that fact, Act. 4. 28. & 2. 23.
Answer. To say that God carrieth all things by an absolute and unconditional decree of providence, viz. opposing absolute to all conditions presupposed in the creature, in my judgment is neither agreeing to the Doctrine of Scripture, nor of our Divines; who do both teach that as God in the fullness of time doth administer and dispense the way of his providence, so he decreed to dispense them in the same manner from eternity. Now in dispensing the performance of the Covenant of works, the Lord punisheth and rewardeth the creature according to the condition of obedience or disobedience performed by it, as it is at large described, Levit. 26; Deut. 28. and therefore surely he decreed to carry such works of his providence upon the same conditions.
Answer. To say that God carryeth all things by an absolute and unconditionall decree of providence, viz. opposing absolute to all conditions presupposed in the creature, in my judgment is neither agreeing to the Doctrine of Scripture, nor of our Divines; who doe both teach that as God in the fulnesse of time doth administer and dispense the way of his providence, so hee decreed to dispense them in the same manner from eternity. Now in dispensing the performance of the Covenant of works, the Lord punisheth and rewardeth the creature according to the condition of obedience or disobedience performed by it, as it is at large described,