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There are other children which tread in their fathers ¹steps, and commit like abominations, or at least do not consider their fathers sins, to be humbled for them, or to make such satisfaction for them as is meet, and to remove the evil effects of them: but some way or other make themselves accessary thereto: and in that respect are visited for them. As the virtues of predecessors descend to their posterity, as Davids and others: so the wickedness of sinners shall fall upon their posterity, if their children, and children's children do the like things.

There are other children which tread in their fathers ¹steps, and commit like abominations, or at least do not consider their fathers sinnes, to be humbled for them, or to make such satisfaction for them as is meet, and to remove the evill effects of them: but some way or other make themselves accessary thereto: and in that respect are visited for them. As the vertues of predecessors descend to their posterity, as Davids and others: so the wickednesse of sinners shall fall upon their posterity, if their children, and childrens children do the like things.

1. 1Quomodo Sanctorum merita descendunt ad posteros, sicut David & caelerorum: sic peccatorum flagitia, si liberi, nepotesque similia gesserint, ad posteros perveniunt. Hier. Comment. l. 3. in Hier. 15.

In Josiahs days, ^cthough he himself did what lay in him to redress the remainder of his fore-fathers abominations, yet ^dthe people were not thoroughly reformed. ^e