Justice of wrath and vindication; patience, longsuffering, meekness, clemency
Justice of wrath is that by which God most equitably exercises His judgments which He has threatened. Vindicating justice is that by which God destroys the reprobate; this God exercises both in the reprobate of this life and in eternal damnation. Justice of deed is that by which God, whatever He does in decreeing or executing, does conveniently to His infinite rectitude.
Patience is that by which God moderates wrath and punishments. LI. Longsuffering is that by which God suspends wrath, lest He hasten to drive away evil as soon as the creature merits it — Psalm 103:8-9; Nahum 1:3. LII. Meekness is that by which God tempers His wrath, lest it be too great, and lest its severity answer to the magnitude of crimes — Psalm 30:5; 103:10-11; Jeremiah 3:12.
LIV. Clemency is that by which God so moderates due punishments that they by no means surpass the creatures strength, and are much inferior to the merits of sins in gravity and duration — 2 Samuel 7:14-15; Psalm 89:33-34; Joel 2:13; Exodus 22:27. From these things rightly established concerning Gods attributes of the third genus, there follows CHAPTER NINETEEN, On Gods blessedness.
Latin
Justitia irae est, qua Deus judicia sua quae comminatus est aequissime exercet. Justitia vindicans est, qua Deus reprobos perdit; hanc Deus exercet tum in reprobis hujus vitae, tum in aeterna damnatione. Justitia facti est, qua Deus quicquid decernendo aut exsequendo facit, rectitudini suae infinitae convenienter facit. Patientia est, qua Deus iram et poenas moderatur. LI. Longanimitas est, qua Deus iram, ne properet ad depulsionem mali quam primum id creatura meretur, suspendit — Psal. CIII.8-9; Nah. I.3. LII. Mansuetudo est, qua Deus iram suam temperat, ne nimia sit, ac ne gravitas illius scelerum magnitudini respondeat — Psal. XXX.6; CIII.10-11; Jerem. III.12. LIV. Clementia est, qua Deus debitas poenas ita moderatur, ut vires creaturae haud superent, et meritis peccatorum gravitate et diuturnitate sint multo inferiores — II Sam. VII.14-15; Psal. LXXXIX.33-34; Joel II.13; Exod. XXII.27. Ex his de attributis Dei tertii generis probe constitutis, sequitur CAPUT DECIMUM NONUM, De Dei beatitudine.