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…

That all creatures are under the dominion of Christ no ¹Christian doubteth, for as God, he made all things, Col. 1. John 1. and as the son of God, he is the heir of all things, Heb. 1. When God bringeth in his first begotten son into the world, he saith of him, Let all the Angels of God worship him, Heb. 1. 6. & Joh. 5. God hath committed all judgement unto his Son, and Joh. 17. 2. Thou hast given him power over all flesh. But that he hath bought this dominion, well it may pass for an Oracle of flesh and blood, but I have not hitherto found it to be an Oracle of God. Whatsoever is bought, is bought with a price. And so whatsoever Christ hath bought, he hath bought with a price, 1 Cor. 6. 20. & 7. 23. And this price wherewith Christ hath bought that which he hath bought, is his blood, Rev. 5. 9. 1 Pet. 1. 18. But blood is no sit price wherewith to buy Dominion. His blood is propitiatory and satisfactory, and so fit only to buy poor souls, and to save them from condemnation. And accordingly, the life that he gave for many, was given by the way of ransom, Matth. 20. 24. So that persons thereby are ransomed, rather then any general dominion procured. And is it sit to say, that Christ by his blood obtained dominion over the wicked to damn them for their sins? Rather the power which he obtained was to give eternal life to them, whom his Father had given him, Job. 17. 2