Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

but the words import thus much, that God in this blindness from the birth, neither respected any sin of the mans own, nor of his Parents, but he did it as an absolute sovereign, to manifest his own ⟨p. 713⟩Glory in that miraculous cure, which was wrought by Christ. Though afflictions do not happen without the desert of the Creature, yet some afflictions may […] sent without any particular respect to that desert, merely for the manifestation of God's Glory, since the Creature was made for God himself, and his honour, and therefore may be used in a serviceableness to the Glory of the Creator.

but the words import thus much, that God in this blindness from the birth, neither respected any sin of the mans own, nor of his Parents, but he did it as an absolute soveraign, to manifest his own ⟨p. 713⟩Glory in that miraculous cure, which was wrought by Christ. Though afflictions do not happen without the desert of the Creature, yet some afflictions may 〈…〉 sent without any particular respect to that desert, meerly for the manifestation of God's Glory, since the Creature was made for God himself, and his honour, and therefore may be used in a serviceableness to the Glory of the Creator.

2. His Dominion is absolute in regard of unlimitedness by any Law without him. He is an absolute Monarch, that makes Laws for his Subjects, but is not bound by any himself, nor receives any rules, and Laws from his Subjects for the management of his Government. But most Governments in the World are bounded by Laws made by common consent. But when Kings are not limited by the Laws of their Kingdoms, yet they are bounded by the Law of Nature, and by the Providence of God. But God is under no Law without himself, his rule is within him, the rectitude and Righteousness of his own nature, he is not under that Law he hath prescribed to man. The Law was not made for a Righteous man,