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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
AN EXAMINATION of a Treatise written by Master Cotton, for the clea… › Question 1: QUESTION. 1.
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.
4. Si electorum praedestinatio futura non esset, nihil esset omnino in rerum natura. Itaque statuo tanquam certum, quod nisi Christus futurus esset in mundo, nulla fuisset à Deo facta electorum praedestinatio, non existente autem praedestinatione, ex cujus vi secuta sunt omnia, non esset coelum, non terra, non reliqua elementa, non viventia, non homines, non Angeli, non peccata, non daemones, non reprobi, & demùm, ut uno totum verbo absolvam, solus Deus esset, & nihil aliud esset à Deo, neque naturale neque supernaturale, neque bonum neque malum; loquimur secundum communem rerum legem & ordinem, & juxta eos sins quos probabiliter suspicamur Deum habuisse in creaturarum conditione. Nam nequaquam intendimus divinae potentiae majestatem sic nostrae imbecillitatis captui alligare, ut negemus potuisse Deum quae sua est absoluta potentia, naturam rerum independenter à gratia & gloria, & gratiam independenter à Christo Domino facere & ordinare.
4. Si electorum praedestinatio futura non esset, nihil esset omnino in rerum natura. Itaque statuo tanquam certum, quod nisi Christus futurus esset in mundo, nulla fuisset à Deo facta electorum praedestinatio, non existente autem praedestinatione, ex cujus vi secuta sunt omnia, non esset coelum, non terra, non reliqua elementa, non viventia, non homines, non Angeli, non peccata, non daemones, non reprobi, & demùm, ut uno totum verbo absolvam, solus Deus esset, & nihil aliud esset à Deo, neque naturale neque supernaturale, neque bonum neque malum; loquimur secundum communem rerum legem & ordinem, & juxta eos sines quos probabiliter suspicamur Deum habuisse in creaturarum conditione. Nam nequaquam intendimus divinae potentiae majestatem sic nostrae imbecillitatis captui alligare, ut negemus potuisse Deum quae sua est absoluta potentia, naturam rerum independenter à gratia & gloria, & gratiam independenter à Christo Domino facere & ordinare.
Then he proceeds to show, how many, seeming to favour this opinion of his, yet take quite contrary courses in the maintenance thereof, such as tend rather to the destruction of it; and they are in number five.
Then hee proceeds to shew, how many, seeming to favour this opinion of his, yet take quite contrary courses in the maintenance thereof, such as tend rather to the destruction of it; and they are in number five.