148 The Living Temple. Part II. Mercy, He provides for the Expiation o fSin, and falving the Rights of His Government another way, by trans, ferringGuilt, and theCurfe, not nulling them. V. Whereupon, we may alto fee what made Attonement for Sin, fo funda- mental to a Defign of Grace ; the mags nifying the Divine Law, If 42. 2 t, the alerting the Equity and Righteouf, nefs of the Supreani Government, not as fome odioufly fuggeft, the gratify- ing of what, with us, is wont to go for a private Appetite ofRevenge, from whichthe Support of the Honour and Dignity ofthe Government, is moil re- mote : Yea, it were horrid to fuppofe, than anyRuch thingcan have place with the BledGod ; which is one of the mofEodious things in the Difpofition of lapfed degenerateMan, an aptnefs to take Complacency in the Pains and An, gui (h of fuch, as have offended us ; unto which purpofe, how feelingly would a malicious ill-minded Man, Of- tentitnes, utter the fenfe of his Heart, and fay, 0 the Sweetnefs of Revenge! So black a Thought of God, will be X11 remote from eery pious Breafi, or that
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