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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 1: QUESTION. 1.
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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.
It doth not follow, that if we were not created for Christ, but Christ for us, then Christ should be brought into the world as Ens per accidens; for the heavens and the earth, together with the fights of the one, and herbs and trees of the other, and brute beasts, were created for man and not man for them; yet neither of them all were brought forth as Ens per accidens: yet, had they been brought forth per accidens, never-a-whit the more had they been Entia per accidens; Entia per se may be brought forth per accidens: to be Ens per accidens is one thing, and to be brought forth per accidens is another thing.
It doth not follow, that if we were not created for Christ, but Christ for us, then Christ should be brought into the world as Ens per accidens; for the heavens and the earth, together with the fights of the one, and herbes and trees of the other, and bruit beasts, were created for man and not man for them; yet neither of them all were brought forth as Ens per accidens: yet, had they beene brought forth per accidens, never-a-whit the more had they been Entia per accidens; Entia per se may be brought forth per accidens: to be Ens per accidens is one thing, and to be brought forth per accidens is another thing.
It had been more tolerable to argue thus; If Christ had been brought forth into the world only upon occasion of Adams fall, then he had been brought forth per accidens; yet no truth had