26o The Living Temple. Part II. CHAP. 1VII. The Notion of Juftice in the Di- vine Government, and in an Humane, not altogether the fame. A thing Paid be juft, in a negative, and a pofitive Senfe. The Queffion difcnfl, Whether God's Will to pu- nifh Sin, were antecedently to his legal Conf}itution to that purpofe, juft, not only in the former Setif(, but in the latter an ? Volenti non fit injuria, as to Man, needs Limitation. Holy Scripture fpeaks ofGod's punifhing Sin, not meerly as a Comcomniit- ment of Juflice, but an EffeEr. His IVill to piinifb it nnrif pro- ceed.from Juflice : Not prima- rily, according to the Common Notion
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