3 s 6 The SuAllfirionsdeörine their retire and meaning. For Gods will is not a rule of juflice to himfelf, as if things were therefore juif becaufe he willeth them and worketh them: but his juflice rather is a rule of his will and works, which are the expreffions of his will. He therefore maketh decrees and executeth them , becaufe they are agreeable to thatjuflice which dvvelleth in the Divine na- ture. As he maketh nothing which bath not potentiam obje- aivam, a power ofbeing created without implying contra- di&ion to himfelfor any thing in him, fohewilleth and do. Hieror. ethnothing but that which may be willed or donefalvd ju- Proem. in jtitir"c, without wrong to his juíiice. S. Hieron-e fpeaking of xTeam. the Prophet Hofea's taking avvife of fornications, Hof. La. faith it vvas done in typo, typically,not really;quiaJ: ftat,tur- piffi#num es ,becaufe if it had been indeed done, it had beena moll foul thing. But thou wilt anfwer(faith he) Deo jubente, nihil turpe eft, God commanding it, nothing is dithonell. Thus much we fay, faith the Father, That God commandeth nothing but what is hone#: but he doth not by commanding difhaneft things, make thofe things honeft which are abomina- ble: plainly giving us to Ice what he thought, viz. that God doth not will a thing,and fo make it good; but willeth it bo- eufe it is in it Pelf good antecedently and before the a& of Gods will about it. And thus much Both Zanchie( though a rigidmainteiner ofabfolute Reprobation ) not obfcurely confetíè in his Treatife De naturaDei: Where he letteth fall fuchfpeeches as make Gods juffice antecedent tohis vvtll,and fZanch. l.3, therefore the rule of it, rather then a thing regulated by it: De nae.De,, fACeither can Godwill any thing, faith he, which is not juft. C.4 t t Ne- And again, g ThePrincespleafure hash the ffrength ofa law, gue aliquid is a rule, faith he, among the Canonifts: but h this is true , velle potefl where theKing isjuft, and willeth nothingbut what is just. quodfir. tlum In which words he plainly rnaketh the juflice ofthe King an- g Qéod pia tecedent to that will ofhis which mutt be a law. Many more cet principi, fpeeches he ufeth there to the fame parpofe. Gods will there. legis habet fore is not a rule of jufiice to himfelf. To whom then ? To vigorem, h us. For by it vve are i. to fquare all our thoughts,words,and Ibi um maxi- deeds; z. To examine them when they are fpolen and eft, ubi done:Primiimin aliquogenere e(t regula po(ieriorum, dc-fiipYe- j ufhus eft, & mum inferior/4m. nihil vulc z. I reply, That thefe abfolute (I{) decrees of mens in- niG juflum. evitable falvation and damnation are no parts of Gods re- Quantò ma- P' gts in regno vealed will. The Scriptures teach us no filch matter. And Dei, eye, therefore to fay they are, is but a mere begging of the quethi- o n.
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