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…

Though God had decreed the advancement of the man Christ upon presupposall of Adams fall (which yet I hold to be impossible) yet this had not hindered but we had been created for Christ, and that divers ways: 1. To reap benefit by him after our fall. 2. To be of the number of those over whom the man Christ should one day rule, if not in grace (for thousands were out of that state before Christ man had any being) yet in glory. 3. As also to glorify him both in this world (though this is verified of those only who were brought forth after his incarnation, for Christ man had no being before, and consequently could not be glorified before) and in the world to come. Yet it cannot be denied, but that Christ also was both incarnate, and lived, and died for us and for our salvation, though that of the Apostle which you mention is nothing to this purpose, as spoken of Christ God, and not of Christ man.

Though God had decreed the advancement of the man Christ upon presupposall of Adams fall (which yet I hold to be impossible) yet this had not hinderd but we had been created for Christ, and that divers wayes: 1. To reape benefit by him after our fall. 2. To be of the number of those over whom the man Christ should one day rule, if not in grace (for thousands were out of that state before Christ man had any being) yet in glory. 3. As also to glorifie him both in this world (though this is verified of those only who were brought forth after his incarnation, for Christ man had no being before, and consequently could not be glorified before) and in the world to come. Yet it cannot be denyed, but that Christ also was both incarnate, and lived, and died for us and for our salvation, though that of the Apostle which you mention is nothing to this purpose, as spoken of Christ God, and not of Christ man.

Undoubtedly, Christ came into the world upon the occasion of mans fall, for he came into the world as a Physician, and to call sinners unto repentance; which had been merely in vain, had not sin entered into the world by Adam.

Undoubtedly, Christ came into the world upon the occasion of mans fall, for he came into the world as a Physitian, and to call sinners unto repentance; which had beene meerely in vaine, had not sinne entred into the world by Adam.