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The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A…
The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandments gathered from the mouth of a faithful pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholar in Cambridge.The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandements gathered from the mouth of a faithfull pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholler in Cambridge.
London: printed by John Harison for Thomas Man, 1603London: printed by Iohn Harison for Thomas Man, 1603
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First it may be objected, how God can in justice do this and punish the children for the fathers fault: But to that one may answer as God doth in Hosea. 2. 2. speaking to the Jews, he bids them plead with their mother, comparing him self to an husband, he shows that there is no fault in him, but all the blame lies on the adulterous mother, for as an husband may without any fault put away the wife, that hath dealt treacherously, and her adulterous brood to, so God may justly plague and forsake both the parents, and the wicked children of wicked parents.
FIrst it may bee objected, how God can in iustice doe this and punish the children for the fathers fault: But to that one may answere as God doth in Hosea. 2. 2. speaking to the Iewes, hee bids them plead with their mother, comparing him selfe to an husband, he shewes that there is no fault in him, but all the blame lies on the adulterous mother, for as an husband may without any fault put away the wife, that hath dealt trecherouslie, and hir adulterous broode to, so God may iustlie plague and forsake both the parents, and the wicked children of wicked parents.
Now his vengeance upon the children of Idolatrous parents, is showed especially in these things. First in with-holding the means of grace from them, and also the spirit of grace: secondly in letting them see their fathers evil ways, so imitate them: thirdly in with-holding from them, those means that might turn and convert them, and help them out of their sin, as the admonition of his children, and such like. But the doctrine that we may gather hence is, that ungodly parents are the most deadly enemies unto their children, as in Exo. 34. Where God sets down his name most comfortably, and the abundance of his mercy, yet he ads this withal, Holding not the wicked innocent, but visiting the sins of the fathers, on the children. This the example of wicked Ahab, doth evidently ⟨image 46⟩