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 without any penalties sustained  himself or his substitute, justice had  set aside, and (speaking after the manner of men) one essential attribute of Deity would have triumphed over another.

A God all mercy, is a God unjust. But, the cross of Christ, mercy and justice are  glorified. In this divine expedient, therefore, God hath displayed infinite wisdom; or, to use the language of inspiration, "He hath abounded towards us, in all wisdom and prudence."

The Apostle Paul tells us, that God set the blessed Jesus for a propitiation,  faith in his blood, with this express, that he might declare his righteousness; might demonstrate that vindictive , whose essential character and principal office is to punish sin. Thus a holy God shows himself to be strictly and inviolably righteous, in the administration of government, even while he is the justifier of the sinner that believeth in Jesus. this method of dispensing grace, he secures the utmost reverence to his divine, he declares his infinite abhorrence of , he strikes the deepest terror on every persevering sinner, at the same time that lays a solid foundation for the highest  in every penitent transgressor, The torments inflicted on condemned souls in