of the World.

But to this may be replied, If the thingitself be unjust, how can our chusing of itmake it just i How can it be just to annexsuch a Penalty as eternal Hell to a short andtransient offence ? Suppose a Prince shouldmake a Law, that whosoever did not riseup and bow himself before an Old Man,should be put to Death with Torments; andone of his Subjects knowingly should transegress this Law upon some great temptation;would it not be accounted Cruelty in thePrince to execute this Law upon him ? Lawsmay be unjust upon account of disproportio-nate Penalties. Neither doth our Choicemuch help the Matter, for that is but an ef-fect of our Error or Folly, or, if you will,Madness, which doth as little deserve eternalDeath as the Sin committed doth.

If any Man be dissatisfied with the prece-dent Answers, all that I have to.add further,is, that before this Sentence adjudging toeternal Death be pronounced against him, andexecuted upon him, there shall be such a re-velation made, as shall convince and satisfiehim of the Righteousness thereof. And thisthe Apostle teems to intimate, Rom. z. 5.when he calls the Great Day of Doom, theDay of the Revelation of the righteous Judg-ment of God. Then shall be made appear

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