historicalgeogra00psal

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T/?e Grounds of
to every one what is due, or that whereby he
rewards the Good, and punifhes the Evil, and
fo it refpefls Man as fubje£t to the Law of
Nature.
This Juftice is temper'd with nnildnefsand longfufFering,
which are thofe Perfedions in God that
reltrain his Anger againft Sinners , without great
and repeated provocations.
The Omnipotence of God is that Perfeftion
whereby he can do all things that do not imply
a contradiftion, and is fuch a Power as nothing
can refitt. The Glory of God is the Excellency
of the Divine Nature, whereby he infinitely exceeds
all the Creatures. The Happinefs of God
his Aftions do not proceed from one Attri-
is the refuk of all the Divine Perfeftions, in
which he cannot but take great complacency, and
fo they make him infinitely more happy by the
contemplation of them.
From what has been faid, we may mfer, That
Cnce God is a moft fimple Being, and his Attributes
are not really diftinguifh'd from one another,
bute alone, but from an harmonious concuirenee
©f all his Attributes together.
SECT. IV.
Of God's End in Creating the World.
HAving
thus (hewn the Exlftence of a God,
and prov'd him to be the Creator and Governour
of all things, fo tar as was neceffary in
a matter fo clear and evident in it felfj I proceed
now