The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

If you say, that Threatenings in a Law, are not false, when they are not fulfilled, because they speak not de event•, but de debito poenae; I answer, they speak directly only de debito; but withal, he that maketh a Law doth thereby say, This shall be the Rule of your lives, and of my ordinary Judgement. And therefore consequently they speak of an ordinary event also: And they are the Rule of Just Judgement, and therefore Justice must not be contemned by their contempt.

If you say, that Threatnings in a Law, are not false, when they are not fulfilled, because they speak not de event•, but de debito poenae; I answer, they speak directly only de debito; but withall, he that maketh a Law doth thereby say, This shall be the Rule of your lives, and of my ordinary Judgement. And therefore consequently they speak of an ordinary event also: And they are the Rule of Just Judgement, and therefore Justice must not be contemned by their contempt.

Or if any shall think, that all this proveth not a demonstration of Justice on the Redeemer to be absolutely necessary, but that God could have pardoned the penitent without it; it is nevertheless manifest, that this was a very wise and congruous way: As he that cannot prove that God could not have illuminated, and moved, and quickened the inferior sensitives without the Sun, may yet prove that the Sun is a noble creature, in whose operations Gods Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness do appear.

Or if any shall think, that all this proveth not a demonstration of Justice on the Redeemer to be absolutely necessary, but that God could have pardoned the penitent without it; it is nevertheless manifest, that this was a very wise and congruous way: As he that cannot prove that God could not have illuminated, and moved, and quickened the inferiour sensitives without the Sun, may yet prove that the Sun is a noble creature, in whose operations Gods Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness do appear.