2 66 The Living Temple. Part II. fives, we had. But as to God, who has no Superior, nor owes any thing to any one, whorl can he he thought to wrong, by departing from any of his own lights ? Inafmuch, therefore, as lufiice, in the common, and moll general Notion of it, is ever wont to be reckon'd convey fant about ce:wieicv 1'34,5ov, the good ofo- thers, even that whereto they have aright, it feems not intelligible, how yuflice, according to this ufual Notionofit, could primarily oblige God, to inflica defer- ved Punithment upon Tranfgreffours, if he had not fettled a Legal Conflitution to this purpofe, and declared that Mould be themeafure of his Proceed* ings herein ; both becaufe it is fo little conceivable, how the Punifhnrents of the other State (which we are chiefly to confider) can be a Good to them, who do not fuffer them (as we are fure they can be none to them that do) : And, alfo, that it is not to be under{lood, how, if they were, they could other- wife have any Right thereto, than by that Con(litution, by which (as, before, God's Dominion was that of an abfo. lute Sovereign Lord) henow undertakes the
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