A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

Thus justly concerning little ones, doth God expostulate with men, but […] may not thus expostulate with God: for to him alone they are not innocent. Ma• rule is to punish him only that offends; and^o not to put the children to death for […] fathers. Yet so far as afflictions go untouching life, children oft suffer for th• parents; being deprived of liberty, goods, honours; as in cases of treason. T• Lord threatens to visit the sins of the fathers upon the children,^p even unto […] fourth generation. So long, that (by the course of nature) their parents may li••• see their wickedness plagued in their posterity: yet if the son repent, the s•• God hath promised that he shall scape. And howsoever this judgement be not •• ways verified, yet it is enough to terrify us all. But it never misseth, where the parents sins are become the children's by imitation. They are then called their Fathers sins; because they were by their age the Founders, by their example […] Teachers, and in their own persons the beginners of those sins. As it is com•••ly said; We may know what house such come of, by some tricks of their Ancestors.

Thus justly concerning little ones, doth God expostulate with men, but 〈…〉 may not thus expostulate with God: for to him alone they are not innocent. Ma• rule is to punish him only that offends; and^o not to put the children to death for 〈…〉 fathers. Yet so farre as afflictions goe untouching life, children oft suffer for th• parents; being deprived of liberty, goods, honours; as in cases of treason. T• Lord threatens to visite the sinnes of the fathers upon the children,