A Body of Practical Divinity

Resp. Rom. 9.14. Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. Job. 8.3. Doth the Almighty pervert justice? 1. God is not bound to give an account of his Actions to his Creatures. If none may say to a King, what dost thou? Eccles. 8.4. much less to God. It is sufficient, God is Lord paramount, he hath a Sovereign Power over his Creatures, therefore can do no Injustice, Rom. 9.21. Hath not the Potter power over the Clay, of the same Lump to make one Vessel to honour, and another unto dishonour? God hath a liberty •e•t in his own Breast to save one, and not another, and his Justice is not at a•l impeached or blemished. If two Men owe you Money, you may without any Injustice remit the Debt to one, and exact it of the other. If two Male-factors be condemned to die, the King may pardon one, and not the other. He is not unjust if he •ets one suffer, because he offended the Law, nor if he save the other, because he will make use of his Prerogative as he is King. 2. Though some are saved, and others perish, yet there is no unrighteousness in God, because whoever perisheth, his destruction is of himself, Hos. 13.9. O Israel, thou hast destroyed thy self. God offers Grace, the Sinner refuseth it, Is God bound to give Grace? If a Chirurgeon comes to heal a Man's wound, he will not be healed, but bolts out his Chirurgeon, is the Chirurgeon bound to heal him? Prov. 1.24. I have called, and ye refused. Psal. 81.11. Israel would none of me. God is not bound to force his Mercies upon Men: If they wilfully oppose the offer of Grace, there sin is to be taxed as the cause of their perishing, and not God's justice.

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