It is a virtue in a private man to forgive an injury; and it may be a piece of generosity in such a one to give up some of his rights; but, as I have told you, God is not to be considered, in this case, as a private person, but as a Ruler, a supreme Ruler at the head of the universe : and sin is an offence against him in that capacity ; and therefore for reasons of state, it is not fit he should p