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A Marriner in a storm would very fain save his goods;* 1.1 but to save the ship, he heaves them over-board. A tender-hearted mother corrects her child, where∣as the stripes are deeper in her heart, then in its flesh. As it was said of a Iudge, that being to give sentence of death upon an offender, Bonum quod nolo, facio, I do that
good which I would not. Thus God, more loving then the carefull Marriner, more tender then the indulgent Mother, and more mercifull then the pittifull Iudge, is willingly unwilling, that any sinner should die; He punisheth no man as he is a man, but as he is a sinfull man; He loves him, yet turns him over to Ju∣stice. It is Gods work to punish, but it is withall his opus alienum, his strange work,* 1.2 his strange and forrain act, not his Eudochia, his good will and pleasure, his nature and property being to have mercy on all men.
Jac. Merchan¦tii. Hort. Past.
Esa. 28. 21.