Chap, 34, An Expofztwon upon the Book, of B. Verf,i0._ 557 is noanrighteoufnef fe in God, he immediately before faid , He is my rake implying that God can nomore be movedor removed from doing r i hteoufly, then a rocke can be removed out of its place. We find Mofes alto givingGod the fame attribute; when he fpake of his indeclinablenefs in juflice (Dent: 32..4.) He is a rocke, his worke isperfel,all his wayes are judgement. The wayes of God are not all judgement; as Judgement is oppofed to mer- cy ; fome of his wayes are mercy, and others of them are Judge- ment ; but all his wayes are judgement, as Judgement is oppofed to injuftice or unrighteoufnefle, that's the fignticatitnofJudge- ment ,. when Mofes faith, _Ill his wayes are judgement,he is a God of truth,andwithout inigaity,juft andright is he. The 'Apof}le puts this denying queíliom with much vehemencyr( Rom :: g. 14.) . What (hall we fay then,is thereunrigbteoufneffe with God ? Godfor- bid. And 'cis very confiderable that the Apoftle put this quefti- on with fo muchabhorrence,prefently after he had fpoken of that At-t of God which is fo much quarrelled at by thefoes of men, . as unrighteous and unjufl ; Efau haveIhated, and.facob have I laved, and that,when they had done neither goodnor evil (v. i t.) What ( fay fome ) will God doe thus ?<will he hate or love, be- fore ever men doe good or evill ? yeas, fuch aéls'of loveand ha- tred,ofeleddlion and reje&lion:are gone out from, God. And be- caufe Paul forefaw, that men ( according to their narrow appre- henfion ) would be readyy to fay, furely God is not right in this thereforehe fubjoynes, whatfhallwefay then ? ; is there unrighte oufneffe in God ? As if he had fayd, I know fomemen will be rea- dy enough to fay fo,and.thinke theyhave-reafon enough to fay fo ; They all mull needs fay fo, who meafure God by their fhalfow brains, ( fuch arethe deepeft braïnes compared withGod) and therefore Arminimss, with his followers, (that they mayavoyd this difficulty ) carry the interpretation of this Scripture toanother poynt, as if it had nothing to doewith the eternal! purpofe of God concerning man, but onlyrefpe -Died his dealings with them about temporalls, or-his dealing out temporalls to them. I urge that text becaufe it bath occafion'd ( through mans corruption ) great contendingand quarrelling about the righteoufnefs ofGod yea fame haveprefumed,there canbenomaintaining that opinion of theabfolute decree, without faflenin unrighteoufneffeupon God. But the. Apoflle by the Spirit forefeeing.this flefhly obje- ¿ ion,
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