Justice of God: That perfection of his nature whereby he is infinitely righteous in
himself and in all he does, the righteousness of the divine nature
exercised in his moral government. At first God imposes righteous laws
on his creatures and executes them righteously. Justice is not an
optional product of his will, but an unchangeable principle of his
very nature. His legislative justice is his requiring of his rational
creatures conformity in all respects to the moral law. His rectoral or
distributive justice is his dealing with his accountable creatures
according to the requirements of the law in rewarding or punishing
them
(Psalms 89:14) In remunerative justice he distributes rewards
(James 1:12; 2 Timothy 4:8) in vindictive or punitive justice he inflicts
punishment on account of transgression
(2 Thessalonians 1:6) He cannot, as
being infinitely righteous, do otherwise than regard and hate sin as
intrinsically hateful and deserving of punishment. "He cannot deny
himself"
(2 Timothy 2:13) His essential and eternal righteousness
immutably determines him to visit every sin as such with merited
punishment.
