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…

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.

1. 1Examine.Examin.

It is granted on all hands, that God first aimed at the declaration of his own glory: Now, wherein doth God delight principally ¹for to manifest his glory? God himself declared it to Moses, who desired him to show him his glory; The Lord, saith he, merciful, and gracious, and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting iniquity: ²Where God declareth, and proclaimeth his chief glory to stand partly of attributes, and the work of grace in the one hand and of justice in the other; for God in like sort declareth wherein he delighteth chiefly to glorify himself, viz. in the exercise of loving kindness, and righteousness, and judgement, Jer. 9. 24.

It is granted on all hands, that God first aimed at the declaration of his owne glory: Now, wherein doth God delight principally