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…

As for the accommodation of the rule, it seems to me to be nothing at all to the purpose; for the doubt proposed was not how it might appear that there was any thought of the glorifying of God, before the presupposall of Adams fall, and of Christs humiliation. We willingly acknowledge the glory of God was thought on before them all, both before the incarnation, advancement of the man Christ, mans fall, and Christs humiliation: I say, before them all, prioritate rationis, by priority of reason; for, undoubtedly, both the incarnation of the Son of God, That is, the hypostatical union of Christs manhood to the second person in the Trinity, and the advancement of the man Christ, was to the glory of God as the end thereof, as well as ought else. And this glory of God hath been specified at least in part. And as for the glorifying of himself in Christ, this still denotes the glory of God as the end, though it adds withal the matter wherein it shines, to wit, the man Christ. And to prevent the error of equivocation, that usually lurks under generals. This glorifying of God in ⟨p. 6⟩Christ consists either in several, or in common, with the glorifying of himself in man also; to wit, in the elect, considered in several. I confess there is a double glory of God, manifested in Christ: The one is the glory of his pure grace in conferring the greatest good and honour that the creature is capable of, as namely in the hypostatical union of the manhood of Christ to the second person in the Trinity.

As for the accomodation of the rule, it seems to me to be nothing at all to the purpose; for the doubt proposed was not how it might appeare that there was any thought of the glorifying of God, before the presupposall of Adams fall, and of Christs humiliation. We willingly acknowledge the glory of God was thought on before them all, both before the incarnation, advancement of the man Christ, mans fall, and Christs humiliation: I say, before them all, prioritate rationis, by priority of reason; for, undoubtedly, both the incarnation of the Son of God, That is, the hypostaticall union of Christs manhood to the second person in the Trinitie, and the advancement of the man Christ, was to the glory of God as the end thereof, as well as ought else. And this glory of God hath been specified at least in part. And as for the glorifying of himself in Christ, this still denotes the glory of God as the end, though it addes withall the matter wherein it shines, to wit, the man Christ. And to prevent the errour of equivocation, that usually lurkes under generalls. This glorifying of God in