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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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2. He is just in punishing Offenders. And he is just, 1. Because he punisheth Sinners by a Law. Where there is no Law there is no transgression, Rom. 4.15. But God ⟨p. 51⟩hath given Men a Law, and they brake it, therefore he punisheth them justly. 2. God is just in punishing the Wicked, because he never punisheth them, but upon full Proof and Evidence. What greater Evidence then for a Man's own Conscience to be Witness against him? There is nothing God chargeth upon a Sinner, but Conscience doth set Seal to the Truth of it.
Use 1. See here another Flower of God's Crown the is just and righteous. He is the Exemplar and Pattern of Justice.
Object. But how doth it seem to stand with God's Justice, that the Wicked should prosper in the World, Prov. 12.1. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? This hath been a great stumbling, and been ready to make many question God's Justice. Such as are highest in sin are highest in power. Diogenes seeing Harpalus a Thief go on prosperously, said, Sure God had cast off the Government of the World, and minded not how things went here below.