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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.
Answ. The Apostle doth not plainly affirm it, that they are separate from Christ, but with much compassion bewails it, yea, and protesteth, that he would wish himself rather separate from Christ for their sakes: The grounds of which he rendereth to be for his kindreds sake, ver. 3. for their privileges sake, ver. 4, 5.
Answ. The Apostle doth not plainly affirm it, that they are separate from Christ, but with much compassion bewailes it, yea, and protesteth, that hee would wish himself rather separate from Christ for their sakes: The grounds of which hee rendreth to bee for his kindreds sake, ver. 3. for their priviledges sake, ver. 4, 5.
This coherence I could brook well enough, only I say it is devised at pleasure: and I find it is a general course to feign 1coherences, and sometimes only to shape thereby some conformation of the Apostles meaning to their interpretation of him. The Apostle I am sure makes none, and accordingly Ludovious Leoburgensis professeth, saying, Prorsus nova disputatio instituitur, in qua tametsi doctrinam de Justificatione alicubi repetit & intertexit, tamen duas alias materias principals tractat: videlicet, quis sit vere populus Dei, seu quae sit vera Ecclesia, & de vocatione Gentium. Judaei contendebant, se esse Ecclesiam, se esse populum; ad se solos pertinere promissiones. Paulus respondet Elector esse populos Dei. The disputation here instituted by the Apostle, is altogether new, wherein although he doth sometimes repeal and insert the Doctrine of Justification; yet he handles two other ⟨p. 274⟩principal matters, to wit, who are the people of God in truth, and which is the true Church; and of the calling of the Gentiles. The Jews contended that they were the Church, they were Gods people, and that to them alone pertained the promises. Paul answers that the Elect alone are Gods people.
This coherence I could brook well enough, onely I say it is devised at pleasure: and I finde it is a generall course to feign