286 The Living Temple. Part II. Nor let,this be underf ood to detract from, but add to, what bath been a- bove difcourfed, of Jufice taken in a mofifirict Senfe, and 1nofl appropriate to God, as it is primarily, and, in thefirfl dace, confervative ofhis own moilfacred Rights ; which muff be, ' by confe- quence, vindictive of the Violation of them s and this is the Original Nuflice (as his are the Original Rights, and the Fountain of all other) and muff havehad place tho' he had fettled no exprefs Gonfi itution of Government., And alfo as fecondarily, it is conferva- tive of the Rights of the governed Com- munity, which, by the Conflitntiononce fettled, accrue to it. Whereupon, alto, it may beunder- flood, in what fenfe Pn1ziftments (paf- fively taken) are to be accounted Debts. And it is fitter to diffinguith, and thereupon to explain, how they are, or are not fo, than at random to deny they are fo at all s when our Lord bath taught us to pray, forgive us our Debts. And when it is fo plain in it fell, that he, who, by Delinquency, hath far- fèited his Life, is moI truly faid to owe it to Mice. Yea, and when, though the Creditor Pane i faid not to be fo easly
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