with mensfinnes. I Sy God fhould will finnefull a&ions as they are deferts of punifhment unto the finner himfelf, then it were clear he willeth them fub formalitate peccati : for they no other- wife deferve punifhment then as they are formally repugnant to the lawof God: But in willing the materiali aisof divers Pinnes as they are ínfli&ions of punifhment upon other perfons , they are good and juif, as all Gods punifhments are ; and they have nothing to do with the formalitie of finne, which is a privationof rectitude in the will offuch finnefull agents, andcan be no other- wifecaufed then by themfelves. An anfwer to the Indignities. PrO the firíl we fay, That ortm and V- 1 fus peccati are things of a quite different nature. It is want ofwifdome to caufe finne quoad ortum, or tobe a caufe breeding and sing it : But it is an high point of the Di- vine Wifdome, to caufe finne bred in the defe6ive will of man and acted by the will of man, to be a juft punifhment either unto hitnfelf or others. And this is all which Cajetane intended upon 2. Kings 12. in denying God to be the authour of finne as Pinne, and yet granting that he may be the authour of fin quapunapeccati. Which opi- nion ofhis, though it be quarrelled by force other Papifts in regard ofthe word fduthour, yet
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