Chapter 7: God as Judge never makes an innocent man a sinner
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Nor will it ever be found that God as Judge, or by his judgment, made him a sinner who otherwise would not have been a sinner, or by his sentence stripped anyone of inherent justice, or punished anyone in whom there was not a sin that deserved that penalty.If sometimes, no account being taken of sin, by his supreme power over creatures he permits someone to be afflicted—as Job, and that blind man whose history is told in John 9—he does that not as judge, nor that justice be satisfied, nor that the law's threat be fulfilled, but as supreme Lord of his creature, who can use it at his pleasure for his glory, for the Church's edification,for the confusion of his enemies, for the proving of him who is so afflicted.
Latin
Nec unquam reperietur Deum Judicem, aut suo judicio fecisse peccatorem eum, qui alioqui non fuisset peccator, aut sententia sua privasse aliquem justitia inhaerente, aut punivisse aliquem, in quo non esset peccatum, quod illam poenam mereretur. Si quando nulla habita ratione peccati, pro summa sua in creaturas potestate, aliquem affligi permittit, ut Jobum, & caecum illum cuius historia narratur Joh. 9. id non facit ut judex, nec ut justitiae satisfiat, nec ut legis comminatio adimpleatur, sed ut supremus creaturae suae Dominus, qui ea uti potest pro suo arbitrio ad gloriam suam, ad Ecclesiae aedificationem, ad confusionem hostium suorum, ad probationem illius qui sic affligitur.