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208 Law, which you cannot conceive of? What more unjust way of proceeding against justice can there be than this? If any stranger should take upon him to judge of the Laws and Constitutions of your Country; you would command him to desist and be silent, because he understands them not, and shall you who are the inhabitant of earth, presume rashly to censure the Laws of Heaven, you understand not? Or you that are the work to question your Maker? But it matters not, go on, for I shall now come up more close to you, and distinctly examine (as you desire me) these misty calumnies of yours by the Sun of Reason. Three things you object, that God doth not punish the wicked; that he doth punish the innocent; and that he substitutes and and exchanges offendours. You say first divine vengeance doth ill to pass by wicked men. Doth it then o- Rh