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…

Pag. 30. lin. 6. to 15. Thomas is of opinion, that Christ should never have been predestinated if man had not sinned. Whence it seemeth to follow by consequence, that sin was first seen by God, and the permission thereof willed, before the incarnation of the Word was willed: So that in the way of the Thomists, it appears not how it can stand, that the first decree of God was the incarnation or predestination of the Word, if so be the permission and fore-sight of sin was before it: but if Christ were predestinate before sin was fore-seen, then though sin had not been yet Christ should have come into the world, who was predestinate before the fore-sight of sin. lin. 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38. That God did first will the hypostatical union and incarnation of the Word, before he willed the permission of sin, and before he determined to make the nature of man, and of the whole universe—Yet because the incarnation was not willed without the consideration of sin, but was willed dependently upon the permission of sin, and of the nature of things, as upon the means; therefore it followeth not, that Christ should come into the world if sin had not entered, or if the world had not at all been.—means tending to the incarnation of Christ.

Pag. 30. lin. 6. to 15. Thomas is of opinion, that Christ should never have been predestinated if man had not sinned. Whence it seemeth to follow by consequence, that sinne was first seen by God, and the permission thereof willed, before the incarnation of the Word was willed: So that in the way of the Thomists, it appeares not how it can stand, that the first decree of God was the incarnation or predestination of the Word, if so be the permission and fore-sight of sin was before it: but if Christ were predestinate before sin was fore-seen, then though sin had not been yet Christ should have come into the world, who was predestinate before the fore-sight of sin. lin. 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38. That God did first will the hypostaticall union and incarnation of the Word, before he willed the permission of sin, and before he determined to make the nature of man, and of the whole universe—Yet because the incarnation was not willed without the consideration of sin, but was willed dependently upon the permission of sin, and of the nature of things, as upon the meanes; therefore it followeth not, that Christ should come into the world if sinne had not entred, or if the world had not at all been.—means tending to the incarnation of Christ.