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A Diſcourſe
Book II.
Chap. XVII.
The Third Objection; that punishments are transferred, answered. That Men do the same; why God doth so?
But you have cast another Cloud upon Justice; which I must disperse: It is concerning substitutes. For say you it is not so just that God should transferre punishments; and 'tis somewhat hard that posterity should rue the crimes of their Ancestours. But where is the wonder and strangeness of it. I rather wonder at these wonderers that they can find a wonder in that which is every day done by themselves here on Earth. Pray tell me; do not those honours, which for his vertue a Prince hath conferred upon the Ancestours, descend to his posterity? Yes they do; and so also
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