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…

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.

You see well how incongruous it were to plead the sin of Esau, why he should be so dealt withal, seeing Jacob at that time deserved no better. But why do you not observe, that this Discourse of the Apostle, hath every way as pregnant a reference to the obduration of Pharaoh, or of any one that is hardened, as to Gods dealing with Esau?

You see well how incongruous it were to plead the sin of Esau, why hee should bee so dealt withall, seeing Jacob at that time deserved no better. But why doe you not observe, that this Discourse of the Apostle, hath every way as pregnant a reference to the obduration of Pharaoh, or of any one that is hardned, as to Gods dealing with Esau?