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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 2: The second DOUBT.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
That God in his decree of Predestination did show forth the declaration 1of his sovereignty, freedom, and dominion over the creatures, I easily grant; yet that it was his primary aim, rather then the declaration of his justice and grace, I cannot believe, without better proof.
That God in his decree of Predestination did shew forth the declaration 1of his soveraignty, freedome, and dominion over the creatures, I easily grant; yet that it was his primary aime, rather then the declaration of his justice and grace, I cannot beleeve, without better proofe.
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My opinion is, That all the variety of Gods glory, to be manifested in the creature, was intended at once; and if they that are 1otherwise minded come to a particular expression of what glory was intended first, and what next, and so in order, I am persuaded the incongruity of that order will soon appear.
My opinion is, That all the variety of Gods glory, to bee manifested in the creature, was intended at once; and if they that are 1otherwise minded come to a particular expression of what glory was intended first, and what next, and so in order, I am perswaded the incongruity of that order will soon appear.
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