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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.
Page 10. lin. 2, 3, 4. The Apostle saith that we are chosen in Christ, as in a Mediator, by whose blood salvation is procured for us. lin. 5. As touching the act of God choosing. lin. 17, 18. as in the head.—The nature of an head, is not the nature of a cause meritorious. lin. 19, 20, 21. The Apostle saith that we are elect in Christ, as in a Mediator, by whose blood life is procured for us. l. 21. a meritorious cause. lin. 22, 23, 24. and as in an head, from whence these good things are derived to us. So that the reason of an head, is the reason of a meritorious cause, not morally, but naturally. l. 26. as in the head. l. 27. as dead and raised again. l. 37. Christ is the head of the predestinate.
PAge 10. lin. 2, 3, 4. The Apostle saith that we are chosen in Christ, as in a Mediatour, by whose bloud salvation is procured for us. lin. 5. As touching the act of God choosing. lin. 17, 18. as in the head.—The nature of an head, is not the nature of a cause meritorious. lin. 19, 20, 21. The Apostle saith that we are elect in Christ, as in a Mediatour, by whose bloud life is precured for us. l. 21. a meritorious cause. lin. 22, 23, 24. and as in an head, from whence these good things are derived to us. So that the reason of an head, is the reason of a meritorious cause, not morally, but naturally. l. 26. as in the head. l. 27. as dead and raised again. l. 37. Christ is the head of the predestinate.
Page 11. lin. 5, 6. The other reason concerning Christ considered as the head, seemeth to depend on these parts.
Page 12. l. 5. a thing being by accident. l. 28. Predestination puts nothing in the thing predestinated. l. 31. in all things.