God is resolved to have the mastery.  God is merciful, and is come forth into the world by his Son, tendering grace unto sinners by the gospel, and would willingly make a conquest over them for their good by his mercy.  Now he being come out, sinners like briars and thorns do set themselves against him, and will have none of his mercy.  Well, but what says God?  Saith he, “Then I will march on.  I will go through them, and burn them together.  I am resolved to have the mastery one way or another; if they will not bend to me and accept 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.

Doth no man come to Jesus Christ by the will, wisdom, and power of man, but by the gift, promise, and drawing of the Father?  Then here is room for Christians to stand and wonder at the effectual working of God’s providence, that he hath made use of as means to bring them to Jesus Christ.

What was the providence that God made use of as a means, either more remote or near, to bring thee to Jesus Christ?  Was it the removing of thy habitation, the change of thy condition, the loss of relations, estate, or the like?  Was it the casting of thine eye upon some good book, the hearing thy neighbors talk of heavenly things, the beholding of God’s judgments as executed upon others, or thine own deliverance from them, or thy being strangely cast under the ministry of some godly man?  O take notice of such providence or providences.  They were sent and managed by mighty power to do thee good.  God himself hath joined himself to this chariot, yea, and so blessed it that it failed not to accomplish the thing for which it was sent.