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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.
alluding to Isaac, who was begotten beyond the power of nature, and by virtue of Gods promise made to Abraham for a Son, when both he and Sarah were dead as touching any natural power to beget, or conceive a Child. But God to make his promise good, enabled them with power hereunto above nature. And conformably hereunto alluding also to the condition of Gods children begotten unto ⟨p. 276⟩him, not by power of nature, but above nature, by virtue of a promise likewise, even that which he made unto Abraham, that in his seed (that is, in Christ) all the Nations of the earth should be blessed. That is, the Elect of God amongst all Nations. And to make this good by the power of his grace and his holy Spirit, he begets them unto himself, each in his appointed time according to their generations.
alluding to Isaac, who was begotten beyond the power of nature, and by vertue of Gods promise made to Abraham for a Son, when both hee and Sarah were dead as touching any naturall power to beget, or conceive a Childe. But God to make his promise good, inabled them with power hereunto above nature. And conformably hereunto alluding also to the condition of Gods children begotten unto ⟨p. 276⟩him, not by power of nature, but above nature, by vertue of a promise likewise, even that which hee made unto Abraham, that in his seed (that is, in Christ) all the Nations of the earth should bee blessed. That is, the Elect of God amongst all Nations. And to make this good by the power of his grace and his holy Spirit, hee begets them unto himself, each in his appointed time according to their generations.
Quest. Is there not then unrighteousness with God to deal so unequally with persons equal? ver. 14.
Quest. Is there not then unrighteousnesse with God to deale so unequally with persons equall? ver. 14.