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…

And I hope that which I have here delivered may suffice to the cutting off of the very sinews of that discourse: if not, I shall not be averse from taking further pains, as I shall see cause, and opportunity, and God shall enable me.

And I hope that which I have here delivered may suffice to the cutting off of the very sinewes of that discourse: if not, I shall not be averse from taking further paines, as I shall see cause, and opportunity, and God shall inable me.

Much less is it my meaning to disparage, or under-value the ¹love of God toward the elect, in that I set forth Christ as not first thought upon by God for the elect sake; for though I do not prefer his love to us before the love of Christ, yet is the love of God to us unspeakable and glorious; not only in preferring us before the world of other men, and the rest of the creatures, but also in thinking upon us in Christ, upon whom Christ should show forth the riches of his gracious love and tender mercy.²

Much lesse is it my meaning to disparage, or under-value the ¹love of God toward the elect, in that I set forth Christ as not first thought upon by God for the elect sake; for though I doe not preferre his love to us before the love of Christ, yet is the love of God to us unspeakable and glorious; not only in preferring us before the world of other men, and the rest of the creatures, but also in thinking upon us in Christ, upon whom Christ should shew forth the riches of his gracious love and tender mercy.²

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