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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 27. lin. last thirteen. 1. Of all things which God from everlasting did in his mind devise to do, the first was the hypostatical union of the divine Word. The second was the predestination of all the elect. The third was the condition of the nature of things. And therefore supernaturals are before naturals; and the order of nature presupposeth the order of grace.
Page 27. lin. last thirteen. 1. Of all things which God from everlasting did in his mind devise to doe, the first was the hypostaticall union of the divine Word. The second was the predestination of all the elect. The third was the condition of the nature of things. And therefore supernaturals are before naturals; and the order of nature presupposeth the order of grace.
2 The fore-knowledge of no future thing is in the mind of God supposed to go before predestination, but all things follow from it: and so far forth, that God decreed nothing at all from eternity to do, nor in time doth, he permits nothing, or intends, whether natural or supernatural, whether it be of great weight, or of least weight, or of no weight, which proceeds not there-hence, and is the effect and means of the predestination of the elect and of Christ. So that all things fall under the order of the divine predestination, as means ordained to the glory of Christ and of his Saints.
2 The fore-knowledge of no future thing is in the mind of God supposed to goe before predestination, but all things follow from it: and so farforth, that God decreed nothing at all from eternity to doe, nor in time doth, he permits nothing, or intends, whether naturall or supernaturall, whether it be of great weight, or of least weight, or of no weight, which proceeds not there-hence, and is the effect and means of the predestination of the elect and of Christ. So that all things fall under the order of the divine predestination, as means ordained to the glory of Christ and of his Saints.