2 5 o The Living Temple. Part IL ws, to pray for them that defpitefully ufe. us, and perfecute us, that we may be his Children, that we may pew our felves born of him, and to have received from him a new, even a divine Nature, one truly agreeable to, and refembling his. own ; and unto whom, therefore, the Ads, and Operations, that naturally proceed from this Temper of Spirit, are more grateful, and favoury, than, all whole Burnt Offerings, and Sacrifice. So are we to frame our Conceptions of the ever BleJdGod ; if either we will take the rationally coherent, andfel f -con-, fiflent Ideaof an abfòlntely perfeft Be- ing, or his own frequent Affirmations, who heft underftands his own Nx ture, or the courfe ofhis actual Difpenfations, towards a Sinful World, for our mea fare ofhim. VI. But is it a Difficulty tous, to recon- cile, with all this, fuch frequent Ex- preíhons, in the facred Volume, as im- port afleadyPurpofe, that all the. Sins of Men, fhall be anfwered with an ex-, aptly. proportionable Meafure of Pu- nifh'ment ? That every Tranfgreff/on f .hall have a jail recompence of reward ? That Death is theElated Wages of Sin ? Qr
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