dppofCth not Gods Mice. tarn do not 'properly agree unto God, the virtue ofJuftice muft needs belong unto him otherwife then unto men: And injuftice muft not be afcribeduntohim, in doing ma- ny things, or not doing, in which we fhould be unjuft if we fhould ufe the like libertie. Godsjuftice is,vAgerefecundím condecentiam biÈ; bonitatis aut veracitatis file. Whilft he doeth this, though he tie not himfelf to the rules ofhumane juftice, it is blafphemy to charge himwith cruelty or injuftice. Fromwhence we inferre thefe corollaries which are unde- niably true. i . That God may without any injuftice abfolutelydecree from all eternity togive in time more naturali gifts, more ci- vil honour, more fupernaturall graces and mercies to one man then to another, with- out all refpeó to forefeen differences of goodneffe or badneffe in the perfons. The reafon, Becaufe it neither croffethhis good- neffe nor his truth. d. That God cannot juflly fubject men to the torments ofhei but for their firmes and finali ending of their life in finne. The reafon , Becaufe if he fhould either punifh an innocent man or a penitent finner, he fhould do anad contrary both rohis goodneffe and truth : And this is onely it which may be termed injuftice when we fpeak of God. Unto the places of Scripture which he fetteth in the front of his difcourfe, I an- fwer 3x
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