Part IL The Living Temple. 3 2 3 and finally pardoned, and faved. And this being now the plain State of the Cafe, let any fQber, unprejudic'd mind, make a Judgment of it, what this mat- ter would come to, if there had not been a cornpenfation made, as a Founda- tion to this Law, and the Publication of it. They that exalt one Divine Perfecti- on to the Diminution of feveral other, that (for inflance) fo plead for the Ab- folutenefi, and Sovereignty ofGod's Mer- cy, not to adjuft therewith the Deter- minations of his Wifdònz, Purity, Righ- teoufnefs, forget that they hereby make any Satisfahion,: by a Redeemer, un- neceffary (and by confequence make Chriff, whom they cannot deny tohave fuffered, and dy'd, being innocent, to have dy'd in vain) nor do allow, in their own thoughts, its juil weight to this State ofthe Cafe, That the 1 Method, in which God was to exercife his par- doning 'Mercy, was by publi(hing an Edict, for that purpofe, that was to extend all the World over, and through all the Succeffons ofTire. They know this is the Courfe the W ifdom of God hath pitcht upon and yet, taking the Cafe as it is, would have this large, univer-
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