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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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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.
But withal, he observes a doubt, the solution whereof must not be pretermitted; that is, whether this opinion can be maintained according to the doctrine of Aquinas; for, saith he, pag. 16. S. Thomas existimat, minimè Christi praedestinationem futuram si homo non reccasset. Ex quo fieri videtur consequens, prius visum à Deo fuisse peccatum, & volitam ejus permissionem, quam volita fuisset incarnatio Verbi: atque adeò non apparet quomodo in via Thomistarum stare possit, quod primum omnium decretorum Dei fuerit incarnatio seu praedestinatio Verbi, si jam praecessit peccati visio atque permissio. Si verò priusquam peccatum videretur fuit Christus praedestinatus, jam ergo etiam non existente peccato, Christus, qui ante visum peccatum praedestinatus fuerat, veniret: Quod directè pugnat cum doctrina S. Thomae.
But withall, hee observes a doubt, the solution whereof must not bee pretermitted; that is, whether this opinion can be maintained according to the doctrine of Aquinas; for, saith he, pag. 16. S. Thomas existimat, minimè Christi praedestinationem futuram si homo non reccasset. Ex quo fieri videtur consequens, prius visum à Deo fuisse peccatum, & volitam ejus permissionem, quam volita fuisset incarnatio Verbi: atque adeò non apparet quomodo in via Thomistarum stare possit, quod primum omnium decretorum Dei fuerit incarnatio seu praedestinatio Verbi, si jam praecessit peccati visio atque permissio. Si verò priusquam peccatum videretur fuit Christus praedestinatus, jam ergo etiam non existente peccato, Christus, qui ante visum peccatum praedestinatus fuerat, veniret: Quod directè pugnat cum doctrina S. Thomae.