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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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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, & ⟨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.