The goodness and wisdom, therefore, by which God is wise and good, and to which all his works of wisdom and goodness are owing, are neither antecedent, nor consequent to his Will.—”
Human reason.
[197]. See Quest. xvii.
[198]. It is a known maxim in the civil law, Cessante capacitate subditi non cessat obligatia.
[199]. Thus the word הודה, is derived from ורה, didicit, or viam monstravit.
[200]. Vid. Cov. Hist. lit. Tom. I. Page 30.
[201]. Vid. Aug. de Hæres. Cap. liv. where speaking of Eunomius, he says, Fertur etiam usque adeo fuisse bonis moribus inimicus, ut asseveraret, quod nihil cuique obesset, quorumlibet perpetratio ac perseverantia peccatorum, si hujus quæ ab illo docebatur, fidei particeps esset.
[202]. See Slled. Comment. de Stat. Relig. & Repub. Lib. xii.
[203]. See a particular account hereof in Lev. xi 15. Chapters.
[204]. The former of these are generally styled the Elicit acts of religion, the latter the Imperate.