For Turretin, the phenomenal world diminishes in importance when compared to the naked majesty of the God who brings it into being.41 He had little interest in the duplex cognitio (the twofold knowledge of God in creation and Scripture) that had occupied Calvin so much. His attention to the created world as a disclosure of God’s grandeur was marginal at best. Calvin knew God (through wonder and delight) in the mirrored beauty of the world that God creates and redeems in Christ. Turretin sought God more directly (with awe and trepidation) in the interior mystery of God’s predestinating will.
