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…

When you say this hardening of Pharaoh, though an effect ¹of Gods hatred of Pharaoh, yet was not an immediate effect of the like hatred which he bare to Esau, before he had done good or evil, but presupposeth the sin of Pharaoh, your meaning seems to be this, that it is not at all an effect of the like hatred which he bare to Esau, before he had done good or evil, yet it is no less then the not writing of his name in the book of life, as touching the communicating of saving grace and glory, neither do we acknowledge it to be any more; (like as Aquinas doth not) now the consequent of this kind or measure of hatred in holy Scripture is no less, then the worshipping of the beast, Rev. 13. 8. nothing less then the obduration ⟨p. 189⟩of Pharaoh. The obduration of the children of Israel, was no greater then such as was consequent unto this, that God did not give them an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, Deut. 29. 4. And this of not giving hearts to perceive, &c. undoubtedly, is a consequent even to that hatred which you are content to attribute unto God, concerning Esau. But you help your self with a complicate proposition, and fly to an immediate effect, which alone you deny in this case, for as much as the hardening of Pharaoh (as you say) presupposed sin committed by him, but very improvidently: For if it be not an immediate effect of the like hatred that God bare unto Esau, then in accurate consideration it is to be acknowledged an effect thereof. Only there is some effect thereof more immediate then this, and what I pray was that? was it Pharaohs sin? for of no other do you make the least intimation; the more improvident is your expression, intimating thereby that Pharaohs sin was a more immediate effect in Pharaoh of the like hatred God bare to Esau then this obduration.

When you say this hardning of Pharaoh, though an effect ¹of Gods hatred of Pharaoh, yet was not an immediate effect of the like hatred which hee bare to Esau, before hee had done good or evill, but presupposeth the sin of Pharaoh, your meaning seems to bee this, that it is not at all an effect of the like hatred which hee bare to Esau, before hee had done good or evill, yet it is no lesse then the not writing of his name in the book of life, as touching the communicating of saving grace and glory, neither do wee acknowledge it to bee any more; (like as Aquinas doth not) now the consequent of this kinde or measure of hatred in holy Scripture is no lesse, then the worshipping of the beast,