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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.
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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.
Hence he proceeds to the justification of his own Tenet: and his first confirmation is derived from that of Paul, 1 Cor. 3. 13. All are yours, and ye are Christs, and Christ is Gods. Ecce ubi (saith hee) qua ratione Christus dicitur esse Dei, & praedestinati dicuntur esse ipsius Christi; eadem ratione omnia naturalia, sive praesentia, sive futura, sive vita, sive mors, dicuntur esse praedestinatorum: Sed sic est, quod ideò dicitur Christus esse Dei, & ⟨p. 29⟩electi dicuntur esse Christi, quia Deus est finis Christi, & Christus electorum, id est, quia Christus ordinatur in Deum tanquam in finem, & electi in Christum tanquam in finem: & nisi esset ille primus finis, id est, Deus, vel manifestatio gloriae Dei, non esset Christus; & nisi esset Christus, non essent electi: ergo omnino eadem ratione creature ideò dicuntur esse electorum, quia sunt propter electos, & electi sunt fines earum; & sic nisi essent futuri electi, non essent naturae creaturarum, &c.
Hence hee proceeds to the justification of his owne Tenet: and his first confirmation is derived from that of Paul, 1 Cor. 3. 13. All are yours, and yee are Christs, and Christ is Gods. Ecce ubi (saith hee) qua ratione Christus dicitur esse Dei, & praedestinati dicuntur esse ipsius Christi; eadem ratione omnia naturalia, sive praesentia, sive futura, sive vita, sive mors, dicuntur esse praedestinatorum: Sed sic est, quod ideò dicitur Christus esse Dei, &