“In Jeremiah, where God proclaims the character in which He would have us to acknowledge Him, though the description is not so full, it is essentially the same. “Let him that glorieth,” says he, “glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth” (Jer. 9:24).

Assuredly, the attributes which it is most necessary for us to know are these three:

1. loving-kindness, on which alone our entire safety depends;
2. judgment, which is daily exercised on the wicked, and awaits them in a severer form, even for eternal destruction;
3. righteousness, by which the faithful are preserved, and most benignly cherished.

The prophet declares, that when you understand these, you are amply furnished with the means of glorying in God.

Nor is there any omission of his truth, or power, or holiness, or goodness. For how could this knowledge of His loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness exist, if it were not founded on His inviolable truth? How again, could it be believed that He governs the earth with judgment and righteousness, without presupposing His mighty power? Whence, too, His loving-kindness, but from His goodness? In fine, if all His ways are loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness, His holiness also is thereby conspicuous.

Moreover, the knowledge of God, which is set forth in the Scriptures, is designed for the same purpose as that which shines in creation, i.e., that we may thereby learn to worship Him with perfect integrity of heart and unfeigned obedience, and also to depend entirely on His goodness.”

- John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 47