Spiritual Perfection: 5. The Doarine of the Trinity and Incarnatioñ have a clear connexion with other Truths , that right Reafon com- prehends and receives without reluaan- cy. That Men tranfgrefs the Laws of God, natural Confcience is their accu- fer, an effential Faculty of the Hu- mane Nature, that can neither dye with them, nor without them : That every Sin needs Pardon is molt evident : That God is juff is known by the general light of Reafon in all Men : That 'tis becoming God to pardon Sin in a way honourable to his Juftice, is as certain Now the fatisfaaion of Divine Juftice requires the enduring the Puniíhment ore. dain'd by the Law , and equal to the guilt of Sin. The guilt of Sin riles from theMaieflyof theLaw-giver, who is difhonoured by it, and the fatisfaai- on muff be by a Perfon of equal digni- ty , and confequently only Goçi can make fatisfaaion. Now Reafon diaates, that he that fatisfies, and he that receives fa- tisfaaion , muff be diflinguifh'd For 'tis not reafonable that the fame Perfora be the Judge and the Criminal ; there- fore there muff be two diffin& Perfons in the Deity; : From hence the Reafon of the Incarnation is evident ; for the Deity is incapable of Suffering , and it was neceffary that the dignity of the Divine 1 59'
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