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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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Other places he draws to the same purpose, and concludes with the Argument of Scot, which in his judgement is ratio efficacissima; Omnis ordinatè volens prius vult finem, & ex mediis ea prius quae sunt fini propinquiora: Sed Christus & praedestinati, ac proinde omnia supernaturalia sunt fini, id est, manifestationi divinae bonitatis, propinquiora quam omnia naturalia, ergo prius quam naturalia volita sunt à Deo supernaturalia, & his prius manifestatio ipsa divinae bonitatis, quam confideramus ut horum omnium finem, &c.
Other places hee drawes to the same purpose, and concludes with the Argument of Scot, which in his judgement is ratio efficacissima; Omnis ordinatè volens prius vult finem, & ex mediis ea prius quae sunt fini propinquiora: Sed Christus & praedestinati, ac proinde omnia supernaturalia sunt fini, id est, manifestationi divinae bonitatis, propinquiora quam omnia naturalia, ergo prius quam naturalia volita sunt à Deo supernaturalia, & his prius manifestatio ipsa divinae bonitatis, quam confideramus ut horum omnium finem, &c.
And withal, he shows that himself is not alone in this opinion, but that the same is maintained by Jacobus Naclantus, upon the 1. Ch. of Eph. in a digression, Quo ordine & ratione de rebus definitum fuerit apud Deum. Albertus Pigh. lib. 8. de lib. Arb. cap. 3. & lib. 1. in initio. Ambrosius Catarinus lib. 1. de eximia ⟨p. 30⟩Praedest. Christi. Petrus Galatinus lib. 7. de Arcanis Cathol. veritatis, à cap. 3. ad 9.
And withall, hee shewes that himselfe is not alone in this opinion, but that the same is maintained by Jacobus Naclantus, upon the 1. Ch. of Eph. in a digression, Quo ordine & ratione de rebus definitum fuerit apud Deum. Albertus Pigh. lib. 8. de lib. Arb. cap. 3. & lib. 1. in initio. Ambrosius Catarinus lib. 1. de eximia ⟨p. 30⟩Praedest. Christi. Petrus Galatinus lib. 7. de Arcanis Cathol. veritatis, à cap. 3. ad 9.