The Belgic Confession, Article XIII (13): God’s Government and Sin

CONCLUSIONS WITHIN "THESE LIMITS" CONCLUSIONS WITHIN "THESE LIMITS" 2. The government of God with respect to the moral creature includes in its compass that creature precisely as a moral creature, even as the divine government always deals with all creatures according to their nature. God's government does not deal with a rock as though it were a tree; and it does not deal with a tree as though it were a monkey; and it does not deal with an animal as though it were a moral creature. So also...