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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.
Lastly, whom he bought by his blood, he redeemed from their vain conversation, 1 Pet. 1. 18. So he did not redeem either reprobate men, or reprobate angels: and as for the Elect Angels they stood not in need of any such Redemption, much less the brute creatures of God. Yet even of some that were no better then Reprobates, it is said that he redeemed them, 2 Pet. 2. 1. And hence Arminius infers that the most wicked are redeemed by Christ, and that in the same sense that Gods Elect are redeemed by Christ. You say he redeemed, even the Reprobates, but not in the same manner as he redeemed the Elect, but only that he bought the dominion of them. But this seems a forced interpretation: For whom he hath bought, they are his in special manner. But to he Christs, is peculiar to Gods Elect, 2 Cor. 3. ult. And hence the Apostle inferreth, Glorify God in your bodies, 1 Cor. 6. ult. You will say, In what sense doth the Apostle say of wicked men, that the Lord redeemed them?
Lastly, whom hee bought by his blood, hee redeemed from their vain conversation, 1 Pet. 1. 18. So hee did not redeem either reprobate men, or reprobate angels: and as for the Elect Angels they stood not in need of any such Redemption, much lesse the brute creatures of God. Yet even of some that were no better then Reprobates, it is said that hee redeemed them, 2 Pet. 2. 1. And hence Arminius inserres that the most wicked are redeemed by Christ, and that in the same sense that Gods Elect are redeemed by Christ. You say hee redeemed, even the Reprobates, but not in the same manner as hee redeemed the Elect, but onely that hee bought the dominion of them. But this seems a forced interpretation: For whom hee hath bought, they are his in speciall manner. But to hee Christs, is peculiar to Gods Elect, 2 Cor. 3. ult. And hence the Apostle inferreth, Glorifie God in your bodies,