“A capacity to resent an injury is not always considered as a blemish, even in a private character; if it be governed by justice, and aimed at the correction of evil, it is generally allowed

“But the idea on which our opponents love principally to dwell is that of a father. Hence the charge that we " represent God in such a light that no earthly parent could imitate him,

“As to the nature and fitness of things, we cannot draw any conclusion thence against the loveliness of vindictive justice, as a Divine attribute, unless the thing itself can be proved to be unlovely. But