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Often appears with: justice as a virtue · the nature and attributes of God · equity, mercy, and pardon · widow and unjust judge · sin, guilt, and repentance · roman imprisonment · religious persecution and toleration · presumption and responsibility · prayer and worship · pier luigi farnese · pharisee and publican humility · persistent prayer
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“For amongst lawyers that is called 'presumption' which must provisionally pass for truth in case the contrary is not proved;” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von, Theodicy · observation
“He put forth a similitude unto them, signifying that men ought always to pray, and not to be weary” William Tyndale, The first New Testament printed in English · precept
“For every man that exalteth himself, shall be brought low: And he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.” William Tyndale, The first New Testament printed in English · insight
Jesus tells parables about persistent prayer, God’s justice for the elect, and humility versus self-righteousness, using examples of a widow, a Pharisee, and a Publican, and blessing children.
The .xviij. Chapter. He put forth a similitude unto them, signifying that men ought always to pray, and not to be weary, saying: There was a Judge in a certain city, which feared not God neither regarded man. And there was a certain widow in the same city, which came unto him saying: Avenge me of mine adversary. And a great while he would not. Afterward he said unto himself: Though I fear not God, nor care for man, …
The Duke of Parma and Piacenza, Pier Luigi Farnese (meeting Benvenuto in the duchy), debates whether to apologize for Benvenuto’s Roman imprisonment, and Benvenuto interprets God’s justice in the encounter.
do so; but that if I had completed those extensive works begun for the King, I should be disposed to quit any great prince merely to enter his Excellency’s service. Hereby it may be seen how the power and goodness of God never leave unpunished any sort or quality of men who act unjustly toward the innocent. This man did what was equivalent to begging my pardon in the presence of those very persons who subsequently t…
Aquinas begins the next set of inquiries on God’s justice and mercy, listing four questions: whether justice exists in God, whether justice is truth, whether mercy exists, and whether every divine work includes both.
things; and the reason why some things are better than others, is that God wills for them a greater good. Hence it follows that He loves more the better things. Reply Obj. 1: God loves Christ not only more than He loves the whole human race, but more than He loves the entire created universe: because He willed for Him the greater good in giving Him "a name that is above all names," in so far as He was true God. Nor …
He distinguishes formal from material conformity to God’s will: people are bound to will what God wills in the aspect of reason (good/universal justice), but not necessarily the material details in particular cases.
object of the will. But in many things we know not what God wills. Therefore the human will cannot be conformed to the Divine will as to the thing willed. Obj. 2: Further, God wills to damn the man whom He foresees about to die in mortal sin. If therefore man were bound to conform his will to the Divine will, in the point of the thing willed, it would follow that a man is bound to will his own damnation. Which is in…
Leibniz argues that foreseeing an evil yet not preventing it does not automatically make one responsible, treating such liability as a presumptive legal inference rather than necessary proof in God’s case.
this permission as a sign of ill intention, and would regard it as a sin of omission, which would render the one convicted thereof accessary in another's sin of commission. 33. But it must be borne in mind that when one has foreseen the evil and has not prevented it although it seems as if one could have done so with ease, and one has even done things that have facilitated it, it does not follow on that account *nec…