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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…
A treatise of Mr. Cottons clearing certain doubts concerning predestination together with an examination thereof / written by William Twice ...A treatise of Mr. Cottons clearing certaine doubts concerning predestination together with an examination thereof / written by William Twisse ...
London: printed by J.D. for Andrew Crook, 1646
AN EXAMINATION of a Treatise written by Master Cotton, for the clea… › Question 2: The second DOUBT.
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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 1for to manifest his glory? God himselfe declared it to Moses, who desired him to shew him his glory; The Lord, saith hee, mercifull, and gracious, and that will by no meanes cleare the guilty, visiting iniquity: 2Where God declareth, and proclaimeth his chiefe 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 hee delighteth chiefly to glorifie himselfe, viz. in the exercise of loving kindnesse, and righteousnesse, and judgement, Jer. 9. 24.
- 1Answ.
- 2Exod. 34. 6, 7.