aa8 God, not the author of Sinne. Vpon theMonday after teth them to beeouercomc. Saint vlugufiine tellethvs, That whenthe Scrip- ture faith, That man is deceiued by God,or his heart hardned ; God is thecaufe of thepæna, but not of theeulpa : ofthepuni/hment, but not ofthefinne. In f pientia enimhominia violat viaseius, (i.) Thefollie of a manis that whichperuertt his wayes. In oneplace the Scripture faith, Dew cAfortemnonfecit, God made not Death. In another, That DeathandLife come from God : implying, That God is not the Authourof Death, but thatheepermits it in him that deferues it. That Iudge that condemnesa theefe vnto death,thisdeath is not tobe imputed to the judge, but to thethefts of the Theefe. Goddefires not any mansfall, or his death ; foras Godis happy without the juft,fo is he alfowithout thewicked. Thebook ofWifedome treating,That God didnot makedeath,nor delighteth in thedefiru- ¿'ion ofthe lining ; renders two reafons thereof : The one, That he hauing created all thingsthat they might hauetheirbee- ing,he takes nopleafure that they fhouldnot be : For what Artificer takesplea- fure to feethe worker ofhis hands perifh Theother,Sanabilesfecit7' ationes orbitrerrarum ; TheGreeke reads Satre. taresfecit Generaciones obisTerrarum, All thingsthat Godcreated , heecreated with health and foundneffe,and in agoodand perfe&ftate. Et non elfin illis me- dicamentum extermina ; TheGreekeword which anfwers to (Medicamentum, maybetaken in a good or an euill fence, either for Phyficke, or for Poyfon : And here it is takenin the worfer fence, and implyeththus much, That Goddid not create the Poyfonofperdition for the generationsofMankind, ( inferred in this wardExtermina) nor did God create perdition in the tell of thecreatures. The Interlinearie here vnderftandsSinne, which ba- nifhethandexcludethmanfromGod,wherby heis vndone, and reduced to nothing. From which finali deftru Lion God deliuervs, &c. THE
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