Note 34 — SERMON XXXIV. The Atonement of Christ. Rom. iii. 25.—Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation——
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Every circumstance that aggravates any crime, must aggravate it in a degree proportionable to that circumstance; otherwise we could never determine what is the degree of this aggravation, nor adjust the punishment in proportion to it. On this account, if the crime he committed against God, an infinite being, the guilt must be infinitely aggravated.