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…

I should think whatsoever is in God is equally glorious, even his strength as well as his mercy, wherewith the Lord begins, in ⟨p. 35⟩¹the ^*place alleged, though here pretermitted: Neither doth it follow, that because these only are here mentioned therefore the glory of God doth principally consist in these. And besides, there is the glory of his sovereignty expressed, even then when the promise of this revelation (here mentioned) was made to Moses; to wit, in showing mercy, and having compassion on whom he will. I beseech thee, show me thy glory: And he answered, I will make ³all my good go before thee, and I will proclaim the Name of the Lord before thee; for I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. And this is it the Apostle doth most insist upon, Rom. 9. yet I make no question but [Greek or Hebrew], the various wisdom of God, is as glorious as any of the rest; and this appeareth in the incarnation of the Son of God, and in the complete execution of his office, as in nothing more. But, I conceive, that glory of God represented to Moses, Exod. 34. 6, 7. was expressed to a special end unto his people, namely, to compose them to a greater reverence of his Majesty; which reverence is a quality consisting of a mixture of love and fear, a moral gesture. Not to speak how the execution of mercy and justice are competent unto the creature, nor to mention that wherein Vasquez and Suarez concur, otherwise much different, about their conceptions of Gods justice, namely, that there is no justice in God toward the creature which is not grounded upon the determination of his will; and so, undoubtedly, is the execution of his mercy also; only with this difference, God hath revealed unto us rules, according to which he will proceed in the execution of his justice; no such rules hath he revealed to us, or prescribed to himself, according to which he will proceed in the execution of his mercy.

I should think whatsoever is in God is equally glorious, even his strength as well as his mercy, wherewith the Lord begins, in