of my mercy in the gospel, I will bend them and break them by my
justice in hell-fire."

HOLINESS OF GOD.

The holiness of God makes the angels cover their faces, and crumbles
Christians, when they behold it, into dust and ashes.

SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD.

The will of God is the rule of all righteousness, neither knoweth he
any other way by which he governeth and ordereth any of his actions.
Whatsoever God doeth, it is good because he doeth it; whether it be
to give grace or to detain it, whether in choosing or refusing. The
consideration of this made the holy men of old ascribe righteousness
to their Maker, even when yet they could not see the reason of his
actions; they would rather stand amazed and wonder at the heights
and depths of his unsearchable judgments, than quarrel at the most
strange and obscure of them.

SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD IN CONVERSION.

Mercy may receive him that we have doomed to hell, and justice may
take hold on him whom we have judged to be bound up in the bundle of
life. We, like Joseph, are for setting of Manasseh before Ephraim;
but God, like Jacob, puts his hands across, and lays his right hand
upon the worst man's head and his left hand upon the best, Gen. 48,
to the amazement and wonderment even of the best of men.

PROVIDENCE OF GOD IN CONVERSION.