I wish to issue a correction: I quote Twisse and explain that, for Twisse and Rutherford, while the will is formally what makes something just, divine wisdom still stands back of justice. This is clearly incorrect and Twisse means to say that wisdom is formally what makes something just. Rutherford's contention that the will of God makes something just, it seems to me, is intended to exclude creatures or anything outside of God from being the rule of justice. His proposition, I think, can be limited to: nothing is just unless it is willed by God. Whether or not Rutherford affirms, furthermore, with Twisse that something is not just qua willed, but qua directed by wisdom, is not clear to me from what Burton has given us and I would need to read Rutherford's Disputation on Providence, which as of yet has not been translated.
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