A64003:592
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.
Secondly, by declaring and setting forth the right God challengeth to himself, to stir up a sinful Creature to this purpose, to show his power on him, though it be in his just hardening and overthrow, ver. 17. Where he inferreth another Corollary arising from both these places, ascribing as well the hardening of the creature that is hardened, as the showing mercy to him that obtaineth mercy, both to the absolute Sovereignty of Gods will, ver. 18.
Secondly, by declaring and setting forth the right God challengeth to himself, to stirre up a sinfull Creature to this purpose, to shew his power on him, though it bee in his just hardning and overthrow, ver. 17. Where hee inferreth another Corollary arising from both these places, ascribing as well the hardning of the creature that is hardned, as the shewing mercy to him that obtaineth mercy, both to the absolute Soveraignty of Gods will, ver. 18.
This objection ariseth from the consideration of the equality 1of Esau and Jacob, before they were born, and whilst they were in their mothers womb.
This objection ariseth from the consideration of the equality 1of Esau and Jacob, before they were born, and whilest they were in their mothers wombe.
- 1Exam.
The Answer is rightly conceived, as freeing God from injustice, by reason of the sovereignty he hath over his creatures and liberty thereupon to deal, not only as here it is expressed in general, diversly, or unequally with persons equal (for so he deals even with his Elect) giving a greater measure of grace to one, as even to Saul a persecutor and less to another though never so moral, and free from such as the world accounts foul sins before their callings, but so unequally as to show mercy unto one, and to deny mercy unto the other. For the more full explication whereof we are to consider, that righteousness or Justice is taken in a double notion. The one is,