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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, how then saith the Apostle, 1 Cor. 7. 14.
Secondly, on all children dying before the guilt of actual sin, he will show the riches of his grace, because their damnation cannot stand, with such an equity of his justice as here is mentioned and made show of.
Secondly, on all children dying before the guilt of actuall sin, hee will shew the riches of his grace, because their damnation cannot stand, with such an equity of his justice as here is mentioned and made shew of.
To this I answer, that when I say, that all the creatures are 1translated into the Dominion of Christ, I mean not into his Kingdom of a grace, but into the dominion of his power; viz. to be disposed of by him, the wicked to the praise of his justice, and both them and other creatures to the service and exercise of his elect. Hence I conceive it to be that it is said, that Christ hath bought the dominion of such as deny him. Hence 2by his dying and rising again he is said to be the Lord both of the quick and dead. Hence God is said to have given all things into his hand, with all power both in heaven and earth. Neither am Lable to conceive how the whole body of the Creature, I mean all the world beside Reprobates, can be said to wait for the redemption, and restoring into the glorious liberty of the sons of God, unless as they lost their liberty—by the first Adam, so they had recovered the same again by the redemption of the second Adam. If then all the creatures be translated into the dominion of Christ, think it not absurd that the Infants of Turks themselves be translated into the same dominion. The place that may be alleged to the contrary, doth prove the Infants of Infidels not to be translated into the Kingdom of grace, or fellowship of his Church, but what is that to this point touching children that die in their infancy before the guilt of their actual sin? I would not hastily determine any