They have beguiled themselves with those curious fables I have already mentioned above: they tell themselves, say, that an eternity of torment is an entirely condign penalty for even the smallest imaginable sin, the most trivial peccadillo, the pettiest lapse of plain morality, because the gravity of any transgression must be measured by the dignity of the one whom it has wronged, and God necessarily possesses infinite dignity; or they tell themselves that the revelation of God’s sovereign glory, in dereliction and redemption, is a good surpassing every other, so good indeed as to make the
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