A44344:1264
A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened…
A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened the union believers have with God and Christ, and the glorious privileges thereof ... / by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ... ; printed from the authors own papers written with his own hand, and attested to be such in an epistle by Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nigh.A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened the union beleevers have with God and Christ, and the glorious priviledges thereof ... / by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ... ; printed from the authors own papers written with his own hand, and attested to be such in an epistle by Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nye.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Righteous.] This is attended in a double Consideration, so far as suits the place and purpose in hand. 1. Properly, speaking according to our apprehension, and the practice of the virtue in our ordinary converse betwixt man and man; it's that virtue, whereby we give every one their due: and that is either by way of distribution, called distributive Justice, in giving Honour to whom Honour belongs; or of Commutation, in our Contracts and Bargainings, when we make payment according to the worth and price of things, called Commutative Justice; or else Corrective Justice, when in Civil Judicature of Causes and Persons, we respect no mans Person, but the equity and right of the Cause; and give to every Cause his full due.
Righteous.] This is attended in a double Consideration, so far as suits the place and purpose in hand. 1. Properly, speaking according to our apprehension, and the practice of the vertue in our ordinary converse betwixt man and man; it's that vertue, whereby we give every one their due: and that is either by way of distribution, called distributive Justice, in giving Honor to whom Honor belongs; or of Commutation, in our Contracts and Bargainings, when we make payment according to the worth and price of things, called Commutative Justice; or else Corrective Justice, when in Civil Judicature of Causes and Persons, we respect no mans Person, but the equity and right of the Cause; and give to every Cause his ful due.
Some Needle-headed men, who are sharp, and Eagle-sighted ⟨p. 386⟩in the search of Secrets, they have conceived, and concluded; That this Commutative Justice cannot be attributed to God. For they imagine it would cast some kind of disparagement and imperfection upon the Majesty of the Almighty.