6.  In  fine,  it  is  a  consequence  of  the  frailty
and  depravity  of  men,  that  their  anger  puts
them  upon  considering  and  punishing  a  par
donable  frailty  as  an  atrocious  crime.     This  is
incompatible  with  the  eminence  of  the  divine
perfections*     If  we  imagine  that  God  acts  so,
in  any  cases,  it  is  because  we  have  false  notions
of  sins,  and  think  that  a  pardonable  frailty
which  is  an  atrocious  crime.     Sometimes  an
action  that  appears  tolerable  to  us,  is  an  atro
cious  crime,  on  account  of  the  motive  from
which  it  proceeds.     Such  was  that  of  Heze-
kiah;  he  showed  his  treasures  to  the  Babylo
nian  ambassadors,  and  although  this  may  seem
very  pardonable,  yet  it  was  an  atrocious  crime,
which  appears  by  the  following  passage:  "  He-
zekiah  rendered  not  again  according  to  the
benefit  done  unto  him:  for  his  heart  was  lifted
up;  therefore  there  was  wrath  upon  him,  and
upon  Judah  and  Jerusalem,"  2  Chron.  xxxii.
