A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

5. If David, perhaps out of the Consciousness to himself of his late Adultery and Murder, will not punish this horrid fact, his Son Absalom shall: And that, not so much out of any Zeal, or of Justice, as desire of Revenge: 2 Sam. 13.28, 29. See Amnon there weltering in his blood, murthered by Absaloms command, when he was drunk, and so for ought we Know, Soul and Body sunk at once, and that eternally. One Act of Injustice draws on Another: The injustice of indulgent David in not punishing the Rape of Tamar, procures the injustice of Absalom, in punishing Amnon with Murder. That, which the Father should have justly revenged, and did not, the Son revengeth unjustly. However, in all this the Lord, the Supreme Judge is Righteous; To reckon for those Sins which humane Partiality or Negligence had omitted; and whilst he punisheth Sin with sin, to punish sin with death. Had David called Amnon to a severe Account for this unpardonable Villainy, the Revenge had not been so desperate. Thus, to Davids Horror, fell Amnon. The third and last, that brings up the Rear of those Serpents, that lay so warm in Davids Bosom, was that great Gallant, the glistering Minion of the Court,

5. If David, perhaps out of the Consciousness to himself of his late Adultery and Murther, will not punish this horrid fact, his Son Absalom shall: And that, not so much out of any Zeal, or of Justice, as desire of Revenge: 2 Sam. 13.28, 29. See Amnon there weltring in his blood, murther'd by Absaloms command, when he was drunk, and so for ought we Know, Soul and Body sunk at once, and that eternally. One Act of Injustice draws on Another: The injustice of indulgent David in not punishing the Rape of Tamar, procures the injustice of Absalom, in punishing Amnon with Murther. That, which the Father should have justly reveng'd, and did not, the Son revengeth unjustly. However, in all this the Lord, the Supreme Judge is Righteous; To reckon for those Sins which humane Partiality or Negligence had omitted; and whilst he punisheth Sin with sin, to punish sin with death. Had David called Amnon to a severe Account for this unpardonable Villany, the Revenge had not been so desperate. Thus, to Davids Horror, fell Amnon. The third and last, that brings up the Rear of those Serpents, that lay so warm in Davids Bosom, was that great Gallant, the glistring Minion of the Court,