Hebrew word _hath wrought_, doth properly signifie, to work by polishing, trimming, or framing and fitting, so that the wicked (who have made themselves so by the acts of their own wills) God by his decree and providence doth polish, fit and order for the setting forth of his own glory in framing the wicked for the day of evil, the evil of punishment and judgment. 9. Further it is necessary that the creature acting a moral act (especially in this case of the Angels and _Adam_ before their fall) have the liberty and freedom of will, and that the will at the instant of the act, be not restrained nor under a coactive power, for otherwise _malum culpæ_ or sin would cease to be evil, and so there could be no sin at all. And thus far, and in this peculiar respect only, the Angels and _Adam_ before their acting of sin, and in the very instant of the act it self, were permitted, that is, God willed and determined not to impede them, but for the ordering of that sin and fall, the permission was conjoined with his will and providence, and not separate from it, or a nude permission. [Sidenote: Rom. 7. 8, 11.] 10. That _malum culpæ_, or sin doth arise by the occasion of a law; for where no law is, there can be no sin, and therefore the Apostle saith: _But sin taking occasion by the Commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence_. So that sin considered as it is sin, is an Aberration or Deviation of the Will of the creature from the revealed law of the Creator, and hath simply and absolutely no other causality, but only the deficiency and ἀταξία of the Creature to produce it, especially in these cases of the Angels and _Adam_ in their first acts of sin. [Sidenote: Psal. 73. 18.] [Sidenote: Psal. 37. 10.] [Sidenote: Psal. 75. 6, 7.] 11. Now we will come to the application of this unto wicked Men as they are under original and actual sins, and that in these few examples. 1. It is not by a bare permissive power, but by his will and order in his providence, for he _setteth up the wicked in slippery places_, and _yet a little while and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be_. So _Cain_ was suffered to slay his Brother _Abel_, but by and by he was sent from the presence of the Lord into the land of _Nod_: So he set up _Saul_ to be _King_ over _Israel_, and soon after rejected him, and also destroyed him: these were by providence, not only bare permission. 2. _For promotion cometh neither from the East nor the West, nor from the South: But God is the judge, he pulleth down one, and setteth up another._ So wicked _Haman_ was set up to be the highest in the Kingdom next _Ahasuerus_, and got a decree to have all the Jewes put to death, and had set up a pair of Gallows to hang _Mordecai_ upon, and yet see the providence of God, who quickly brought him to be hanged upon them himself: and this will be further made out where we speak of providence. [Sidenote: _Resp. Fludan. ad Lanov._ _p._ 18.]