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…

And here is a fair way opened for a third Covenant; for as for the two covenants commonly acknowledged, they are only for the obtaining of Salvation different ways: besides which here is brought in another Covenant for the obtaining the means of grace, and that different ways also, to wit, either by works or by Grace. But when I look unto your former words and consider them well, as when you say it is not the helps of grace offered or given, that include men within any part of the Covenant of grace, but the condition whereupon it is offered or given, these words, It is offered or given, perhaps are not referred to the helps of grace, but rather to the grace it self, yet I interpret them of the helps of grace, with no other mind then to salve this rule of yours from manifest contradiction.

And here is a faire way opened for a third Covenant; for as for the two covenants commonly acknowledged, they are onely for the obtaining of Salvation different wayes: besides which here is brought in another Covenant for the obtaining the means of grace, and that different wayes also, to wit, either by works or by Grace. But when I look unto your former words and consider them well, as when you say it is not the helps of grace offered or given, that include men within any part of the Covenant of grace, but the condition whereupon it is offered or given, these words, It is offered or given, perhaps are not referred to the helps of grace, but rather to the grace it self, yet I interpret them of the helps of grace, with no other minde then to salve this rule of yours from manifest contradiction.

For by your rule you profess, that the inclusion of some within the covenant of grace, and the exclusion of others, depends not upon any indifference in the things offered or given, but only on the condition whereupon they are offered or given; manifestly implying thereby, that the same things are given to them that are without the covenant, and to them that are within; but the difference is only in the condition whereupon they are given.

For by your rule you professe, that the inclusion of some within the covenant of grace, and the exclusion of others, depends not upon any indifference in the things offered or given, but onely on the condition whereupon they are offered or given; manifestly implying thereby, that the same things are given to them that are without the covenant, and to them that are within; but the difference is onely in the condition whereupon they are given.