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…

but to the obduration of Pharaoh also, nay, more properly to that, his obduration ⟨p. 194⟩alone being expressed, and the Apostle being upon an answer to an objection arising from the Apostles Doctrine concerning Gods sovereignty and liberty to harden whom he will.

but to the obduration of Pharaoh also, nay, more properly to that, his obduration ⟨p. 194⟩alone being expressed, and the Apostle being upon an answer to an objection arising from the Apostles Doctrine concerning Gods soveraignty and liberty to harden whom hee will.

Besides this, you do not well to qualify the difference God puts between Jacob and Esau, as if it consisted only in making Esau Jacobs servant, and Jacob Esau's Lord; according to your opinion it extends further then this, even to the granting of such grace to Jacob as should be accompanied with salvation, and denying of the same to Esau, whereupon infallibly followed condemnation. It is true, God is just in dealing with Esau, and God is as just every whit, in dealing with Jacob; for he deals with each according to the Law himself made. But God showed mercy also unto Jacob in providing a Saviour to die for him, and in circumcising his heart, and making him to perform the condition of life, he showed no such mercy unto Esau.

Besides this, you doe not well to qualifie the difference God puts between Jacob and Esau, as if it consisted onely in making Esau Jacobs servant, and Jacob Esaus Lord; according to your opinion it extends further then this, even to the granting of such grace to Jacob as should bee accompanied with salvation, and denying of the same to Esau, whereupon infallibly followed condemnation. It is true, God is just in dealing with Esau, and God is as just every whit, in dealing with Jacob; for hee deales with each according to the Law himself made. But God shewed mercy also unto Jacob in providing a Saviour to die for him, and in circumcising his heart, and making him to perform the condition of life, hee shewed no such mercy unto Esau.