The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

1. Some (as the Learned Grotius) say, that here was Dispensatio Legis, quâ Legis manentis obligatio circa quasdam personas tollitur: But I take it, that God's Threatenings are indispensably Yea and Amen as well as his Promises; for albeit God doth not dare aliquod jus creaturae in his Threatenings, as he doth in his Promises, yet is he debitor sibi-ipsi in both, and not one jot or tittle of either can fail, because of his infinite Veracity; God will not call back his words of threatening, Isai. 31. 2. neither will he himself turn back from them, Jer. 4. 28. his words stand surely for evil, Jer. 44. 29. That Threatening that Nineveh should be destroyed, had a tacit Condition in it; which had it been expressed, the Threatening would have run thus: It shall be destroyed except it repent; therefore ⟨p. 236⟩it repenting, there was a remotion of the Judgment, according to the tenor of the Threatening, but no dispensatio Juris at all. Wherefore

1. Some (as the Learned Grotius) say, that here was Dispensatio Legis, quâ Legis manentis obligatio circa quasdam personas tollitur: But I take it, that God's Threatnings are indispensably Yea and Amen as well as his Promises; for albeit God doth not dare aliquod jus creaturae in his Threatnings, as he doth in his Promises, yet is he debitor sibi-ipsi in both, and not one jot or tittle of either can fail, because of his infinite Veracity; God will not call back his words of threatning, Isai. 31. 2. neither will he himself turn back from them, Jer. 4. 28. his words stand surely for evil, Jer. 44. 29. That Threatning that Nineveh should be destroyed, had a tacit Condition in it; which had it been expressed, the Threatning would have run thus: It shall be destroyed except it repent; therefore ⟨p. 236⟩