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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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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.
Resp. 1. The wicked may be sometimes Instruments to do God's work; though they do not design his glory, yet they may promote it. Cyrus (Ezra. 1.7.) was instrumental for the building God's Temple in Jerusalem. There is some kind of Justice, that they should have a Temporal Reward: God lets them prosper, under whose Wing his People are sheltered. God will not be in any Man's debt; Mal. 1.10. Who hath kindled a fire on my Altar for nought?
Resp. 1. The wicked may be sometimes Instruments to do God's work; though they do not design his glory, yet they may promote it. Cyrus (Ezra. 1.7.) was instrumental for the building God's Temple in Ierusalem. There is some kind of Justice, that they should have a Temporal Reward: God lets them prosper, under whose Wing his People are sheltred. God will not be in any Man's debt;