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Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…
Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending them against several sorts of opponents, especially against the second assault of that pious, reverend and dear brother Mr. Thomas Blake / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Argum. 3. If the Promise aforesaid did not imply a necessary non-interruption of faithful Progenitors, then the Promise and threatening could not be verified: but the Consequent is not to be admitted; therefore the Consequence is plain, in that as the Promise is to many generations of those that love God and keep his Commandments; so the Threatening is, that he will visit the sins of the Fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of, &c. Exod. 20.34. where God proclaims it with his name; and doubtless both the Threatening and the Promise is such, that it cannot be that the same persons are under both at once: being certainly therefore under the Threatening, they are from under the Promise.
Argum. 3. If the Promise aforesaid did not imply a necessary non-interruption of faithfull Progenitors, then the Promise and threatning could not be verified: but the Consequent is not to be admitted; therefore the Consequence is plain, in that as the Promise is to many generations of those that love God and keep his Commandments; so the Threatning is, that he will visit the sins of the Fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of, &c. Exod. 20.34. where God proclaims it with his name; and doubtless both the Threatning and the Promise is such, that it cannot be that the same persons are under both at once: being certainly therefore under the Threatning, they are from under the Promise.
Argum 4. The Threatening to the third and fourth generation is necessary to be understood on supposition, that there be an uninterrupted succession of wicked Progenitors: therefore by proportion so must the Promise be understood, as to a necessary succession of faithful Progenitors.
Argum 4. The Threatning to the third and fourth generation is necessary to be understood on supposition, that there be an uninterrupted succession of wicked Progenitors: therefore by proportion so must the Promise be understood, as to a necessary succession of faithful Progenitors.