averthroweth Gods luftice. Treatife. ilirdly , this abfolute Reprobation is incompatible with Gods Juflice. The Lord (faith (A) David) is righteous in all his wayes, rfal. 145. The judgements of the Lord (faith Solomon) are weight and meafure, Prov. 16. 11. exalt and without exce- ption. So 'apparently juft is God , that he offereth the juftice of his decrees and wayes to the triall of humane underftand.- ing: Efay 5.3 . Judge, I pray you, betweenme and my vineyard. Thdfe to whom the vineyard was committed, flew their ma- llets heir being Cent unto them:what will the Lordofthe Vine- yard, thinkye (faith Chrift) do therefore, when he cometh, to there husbandmen ? Matth. z 1. 40. In which words he ap- pealeth to their judgement. Nay, he is content to prove him - felf and his dealings to be juft by plain and evident argu- ments, Ezek. O. 2.5. &c. Are not my wayes quail, andyours unequal!, O ye houfe of ifael? And he permitteth Abraham when he was in his'greateft hurnilitie, acknowledging him felf to be but duff and afhes, yet to reaCon with him about the equitie of his doings ; Wilt thou flay the righteous with the wicked ? Shall not theJudge ofall the earth dh right ? Gen. 18. z 3, z 5. And Mofes alto is fu%red to argue Gods juftice in the fame manner ; Shall one man finne, andwilt thou be wroth with all the congregation? Numb. 16. zz. In aword, fo evidently juft is God in all his proceedings, that many both good and bad, who have felt his juftice , have cleared God, and deeply charged themfelvcs. Witneffe Ezra, Nehemiah, andDaniel in their ninth chapters, and Adonibezek, Judg. 1, 7. and the Emperour Mauritius , who having Peen his chil- dren butchered, and waiting every minute for the bloudiç flrokeofdeath, brake out into thefe words , Y Righteous art thou, O Lord, and 'uft is thy judgement. With this inviolable jufticeofGod cannot abfoluteRepro- bation (of fuch e(pecially as are commanded to believe and are called to falvation) be reconciled. My reafons (B) are thefe. I. Becaufe it maketh God to punifh the righteous with the wicked. The Supralapfarians fay direally in plain terms, that God decreed to deftru Lion men confidered without finne, and, therefore yet righteous. And the Sublapfariaus fay as much V i1 31I 3 ,AóarnfE Gods Ju- s TI C&o yOfiand.rccl. hisi.cent. 6 . f12ó. 261. Ju- itus es, Do. mine, & ju- film eft tu- dicittm tu- um.
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