Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 18:25

25. That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous shall be as the wicked, that be far from thee: shall not the judge of all the Earth do right .

Now he clearly perceiveth that this person was no less than the Creator, Governour and [illegible: 1+ letters]udge of the World, even the second person in the blessed Trinity, to whom that Title and work is ascribed, as Iohn 5. 22, 27. Acts 10. 42. and 17. 31.

He speaks not this, as if it were simply unjust for God to involve the righteous in the same temporal destruction with the wicked, for he knew very well and by his own experience, that there was not a just man upon Earth that did good and sinned not, Eccles. 7. 20. and therefore no such just man who did not for his own sin deserve that death and destruction, which is the proper wages of sin, Rom. 6. last. But he speaks not here of strict and rigorous justice, but of that moderate and equitable way which God is pleased to use with the Sons of Men, and of that right to temporal deliverances which by vertue of Gods gracious Covenant and Promise did accrue to Pious and Vertuous persons, especially in the times of the Old Testament, when temporal promises were more expresly and particularly made to good men.

Marginal references: Job 8. 3. and 34. 17. Rom. 3. 6.