{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">2. Now I think they must, in the first place, be required\r\nto show, if they can, agreeably to their own definition, that\r\nthe Creator is just in punishing according to their deserts,\r\neither those who perished at the time of the deluge, or the\r\ninhabitants of Sodom, or those who had quitted Egypt, seeing\r\nwe sometimes behold committed crimes more wicked and\r\ndetestable than those for which the above-mentioned persons\r\nwere destroyed, while we do not yet see every sinner paying\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_99\">99</span>the penalty of his misdeeds. Will they say that He who at\r\none time was just has been made good? Or will they rather\r\nbe of opinion that He is even now just, but is patiently\r\nenduring human offences, while that then He was not even\r\njust, inasmuch as He exterminated innocent and sucking\r\nchildren along with cruel and ungodly giants? 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