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5 58 Chap. 34. An Expofition upon the Book of J o B. Verf.ro. élion, hash forelayed and prevented ir, concluding, Oman, who art chart that repljeft againft ggod, fbtll the clay contend with the putte-, &c. Now, as in this a& of eternal Eleelion, fo in all providentiall ails, theLord is infinitely unmoveably and unfpottedly jufl and righteous ; he not only cloth righteous things, but he cannot doe any thing that is unrighteous. And this feeming impotency is the reall power of God, and his moll glorious perfeelion. For, as 'tis from the weakneffe of man that he can doe iniquity , fo 'cis from the power of God that he cannot. That God cannot lye, that he cannot doe any unworthy thing, is an argument of his onnipo- tence. God can no more doe iniquity, then he can cease to be God ; his righreoufneife,his juflice is himfelfe;theJuflice of God is the jufi God , the righreoufneife of God , is the righteous God ; he hathnot only a principle of righteoufneffe in him,as man mayhave, and everyCodlyman truely hath, but,he is righteouf- °iatEd'd -nax_ neffe. A HeathenPoet had this apprehenfion of his Idol Gods; e7, afiáa flu, They love not unrighteoufneffe, but honour fuftice. But Jehovah the o:.Iiomer:'true, the living God, doth more then afFe6tionately love and ho- nour Juflice, He is is eifentially Jufi. That man who is in a flare of righteoufneffe, loves to doingand will doe righteous a6ls ; things and perlons are in their working as they are in theirbeing ; He that cloth righteoufneffe isrighteous,( t John 3. 7.) God is righteous, infinitely righteous, in his being, or nature, therefore he cannot but doe that which is righteous ; to doe an unrighteous a&were tooffer violence tohimfelfe,todeffroy himfelfe. Againe , GodBoth not worke by a rule without him, as men doe (and therefore men oftengoe befide the rule,anddoeamiffe, or a& unrighteoufly, becaufe the rule is one thing, and they are another, the rule iswithout them) but Godhimfelfe is the very rule ofall things, and hence it followeth undeniably , that every thing is righteous and just which he doth, even becaufe he do:h it ; 'tis enough to prove that right which is done,if we can prove God hath done it. Theproud MonarchNebuchadnezzar, was at lat.} brought to this cenfeifion( Dan: 4. 34, 3 5.) At the end of the dayes (namely, of his (even yeares banit7,ment to the beaffs ) INebuchadnezzar lift upmine eyes untoheaven, andmine under- fianding returned unto me,and 1bleffed themolt high,&c who Both according to his will (there is the rule withhim) in theArmy of

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