Owen on God's Justice

God's justice as it is in himself, is simply the sum of all his perfections, and these perfections stand logically prior to his acts of will, acts which therefore have to be consistent with his antecedent perfection.

 

Carl Trueman, The Necessity of Atonement, Drawn into controversie: reformed theological diversity and debates within seventeenth-century British Puritanism (Göttingen ;Oakville, Conn. : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011), 210