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Antonius Walaeus
2 quotations · Works cited: Synopsis of a Purer Theology (Leiden Synopsis)
Decrees & Providence
For in those people God did not make the common sins but found them there, as we have noted before. And although God, in his just but to us hidden judgment, does abandon and harden them more and more (Romans 9:18), yet it is they who by their own free choice first become hardened (Romans 11:7) and abandon the benefits of general providence; they abuse God’s longsuffering, as Paul testifies in Romans 1:18, 26, and 28.
Church & Worship
Or even the blessed Virgin, whom they call Queen of Heaven, Mistress of the Earth, and Star of the Sea (Stella Maris)—even though this is a wrong rendering of Drop of the Sea (Stilla maris)