338 The Sublapfarians doctrine mitring of it or doing the contrarie to be an akof injuftice. But it fareth not fo with God: and therefore by the generali confent of all Divines the opinion of Abulandus tending to this purpofe is exploded : and the Mafter of the Sentences concludeth againíf kLomb.lib. him , k Deis poteft dimittere que fàcit, &fa- I dij1.43. cere qux dirnittit. Godhad not been unjuft, ifhe had iricken David with fudden death in the midff ofhis adulteries neither was he unjuft in forbearinghim and expe6ting his 4cls i 2. repentance. Gods will was juif in executing prefent vengeance uponHerode for accept- ing the profane acclamationof the flattering people; and Gods will had been juft if he had decreed to have forbore him longer and to have givenhim repentance. God needeth I ,mot 6: not rules of humane juffice. i luftitia Dei traa. i9. e ntia fua e/t, qul e regulaomniurn eft, 6. nullo Taff' ' 7. regulator. Gods will is ordinatifima infe, ac proper hoc non indiget ordinante. orda enim ordinante non indiget. And Carthufianus; "' In 44iJ . n' Tolus ordo juftitix originoliter adDivinam 46.qu. i. voluntatern reducitur. uicquid Dews vult, juflurnef,necproprie ejus voluntasrc/tringi- tur jußitià. And our Anfelmus telleth us, n That when God punifheth wicked men, that it is juft, becaufe it is agreeable to their deferts; and when he fpareth them, it is juif too , becaufe it is agreeable with his own godneffe. No man therefore looking at the rules nTrof.c.io
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