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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.
Pag. 71. l. 2, 3. the pride of man is wont to say, If I had known it, I would have done it.
Pag. 72. l. 32. This is an hard saying.
Pag. 76. l. 1, 2, &c. Each part of man (the spirit and the heart, that is the superior and inferior) ill disposed by God, understand it negatively, as touching the giving of free grace, but positively, as touching the judgement, inclination to, and prosecution of a sensible good. So that God made the Kings spirit hard (that is, not yielding to the requests made) and not giving him grace to yield, and working with him to the affection of security, and his own good.
Pag. 76. l. 1, 2, &c. Each part of man (the spirit and the heart, that is the superiour and inferiour) ill disposed by God, understand it negatively, as touching the giving of free grace, but positively, as touching the judgement, inclination to, and prosecution of a sensible good. So that God made the Kings spirit hard (that is, not yeelding to the requests made) and not giving him grace to yeeld, and working with him to the affection of security, and his own good.