The divine life in three treatises

If you say, But how is the pleasure of Gods will attained from the wicked that break his Laws, and displease his will?

I answer; Understand but how his will is crossed or accomplished, pleased or displeased, and you will see, that his will is always done and pleased, even by them that displease him in […]ting his will. •or Gods will hath two sorts of Objects or Products, which must be still distinguished: 1. He willeth what shall be Due from us to him, and from him to us. 2. He willeth Entities and Events, or what shall actually Be, or come to pass. Strictly both these acts of Gods will, perform the things willed, and so are not without their proper effect. God as the Cause and disposer of all things, attaineth his will concerning Events: All things shall Come to pass which he absolutely willeth shall come to pass. He is not frustrated of his will herein, being neither unwise nor impotent, nor unhappy. Whatsoever pleased the Lord, that did he in Heaven and in Earth, in the Sea and in the depths, Psal. 135. 6. Our God is in Heaven, he hath done whatsoever he pleased, Ps•• 115. 3. And as God as our Governor doth by his Laws oblige man to his Duty, his will hath its effect: A Command doth but make the thing commanded to be our Duty; and our Duty it is: and so this act of the will of God is not in vain. Thus far he hath his will. By his Promises he maketh the Reward to be Due to all on condition they perform the Duty, on which he hath suspended it, and to be Actually Due to those only that perform the condition: And all this is accomplished. Heaven is Conditionally given to all, and Actually to the Faithful only. So that what God willeth to be Due as a Lawgiver, is accordingly Due; and what he actually willeth shall come to pass, shall come to pass according to his will.

I answer; Understand but how his will is crossed or accomplished, pleased or displeased, and you will see, that his will is alwayes done and pleased, even by them that displease him in 〈…〉ting his will. or Gods will hath two sorts of Objects or Products, which must be still distinguished: 1. He willeth what shall be Due from us to him, and from him to us. 2. He willeth Entities and Events, or what shall actually Be, or come to pass. Strictly both these acts of Gods will, perform the things willed, and so are not without their proper effect. God as the Cause and disposer of all things, attaineth his will concerning Events: All things shall Come to pass which he absolutely wideth shall come to pass. He is not frustrated of his will herein, being neither unwise nor impotent, nor unhappy. Whatsoever pleased the Lord, that did he in Heaven and in Earth, in the Sea and in the depths,