not another person, shall suffer therefor. If God is able, in the exercise of sovereign prerogative, to substitute person for person, the objectors urge, why is he not able, by the same prerogative, to dispense with the punishment altogether? It is asserted, that in the view of the moral sense of all men there is and can be no connection between the punishment of the sin of one man and the sufferings of a different person. That vicarious punishment, in the strict judicial sense of those terms, is