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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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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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- 21 Tim. 1. 16. Exam.
I confess, there is no colour of disparaging Gods love to us by giving the precedency of Gods love to Christ, especially when both are acknowledged to be eternal, and to be toward both the man Christ and us, before we or the world had a being; most of all, when in the issue the priority seems to be for us, rather then for Christ: for it is confessed, that priority in Gods decrees consists only in purposing one thing for another. And again, it is without question, that all priority in this case is on the part of that for which another thing is purposed. Now albeit we are Christs servants, and he our Lord; yet, undoubtedly, Christ was ordained rather for our good, then we for his good: yet I do not hence collect, that our predestination was before Christs; much less, that Gods