Aph. 5. Rom, a. 5. compared with V. II. Thom, pri- ma fecundæ qu. 98. arr. 4. in refp, ad lé- cunduan. Pererius fuper Rom, z, pag. 57.in4°; 1 Chain ofPrinci ks. perfon of the mighty ; but in righteou f tefs thou f altjudge thy neighbour. And in the NewTeframent thefe two terms j',,.. api righteous judgement,and wosmoroÀn1+ce accepting of perlons are direly op- poled. Divines have received it for a maxime. That acception ofperfons is not found in gratuitis, inads of boun- ty, wherein the loner is at liberty to difpofe his free gifts as pleafeth himfelf, but in debits in aas of juficeand right, whereinthere lieth an obligationupon him that .difhributeth to give every man his due. Hereupon they conclude that in divinepr tdeftination Almigh- ty God, who is no debtour to any of his creatures, and who adcth therein not as a Judge but as a Sovereign Lord and liberal benefa&our,choofeth fome and paffeth byothers, as without injuf}ice or wrong to any, fo without any thew of that which the Scripture properly calleth Acception of perlons, becaufe he was not moved by any ex- ternal thing in doing fo. If
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