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THat God doth punish sin with sin, is undeniably evident from the Scripture; he punisheth Voluntary Hardness of heart with Judicial Hardness. Nevertheless, though to Punish be Gods Act, yet he doth not properly cause the penal sin; but in his Righteous Judgment he denies to give that help
of Grace, which is needful to keep a man from such sin, and which is forfeited by the abuse of Grace already recei∣ved; He doth also justly expose the sinner to more and grea∣ter Temptations. Hereupon the sin, which is the Punishment of former sin, certainly follows. But there is no Causation or Agency of God to the effecting of the sin; only by his Righteous Judgment it is ordered to be a Punishment of former sin.