A26923:414
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
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§. 14. 2. And the Scripture is more copious, and as plain in making punishment due to Children for their next Parents sins, as for Adam's, though Adam's only was the Original of all Sin and Misery. I have elsewhere proved it at large: The Case of Cain's Posterity, and Ham's, and Ishmael's, and Esau's, and Achan's Family, and Ahab's, and many more do fully prove it: And more fully the Second Commandment, and God's declaration of his Name to Moses, Exod. 34. and many a Threatening to the Seed of the Wicked, and Christ's express Words in Matth. 23. 36. so that Scripture puts us out of doubt.
§. 14. 2. And the Scripture is more copious, and as plain in making punishment due to Children for their next Parents sins, as for Adam's, though Adam's only was the Original of all Sin and Misery. I have elsewhere proved it at large: The Case of Cain's Posterity, and Cham's, and Ishmael's, and Esau's, and Achan's Family, and Ahab's, and many more do fully prove it: And more fully the Second Commandment, and God's declaration of his Name to Moses, Exod. 34. and many a Threatning to the Seed of the Wicked, and Christ's express Words in Matth. 23. 36. so that Scripture puts us out of doubt.
§. 15. The common Objection is, that their [Guilt would be greater on us towards the End of the World, than on them at the Beginning, because all our Ancestors Guilt would be ours: But I answer, 1. If it were so, it would be but many Obligations to the same Punishment, when it amounteth to that which God seeth our Nature capable of: For a Finite Worm is not capable of more Suffering than is proportioned to his Nature. 2. And this Objection vainly supposeth, that none of our Ancestors Sins were pardoned: Whereas all are pardoned to the Faithful and their Seed, and much Temporal Punishment is pardoned to many of the Unsanctified: And God himself by limiting it to the third and fourth Generation, seemeth to set bounds to his own Justice. 3. And the Guilt of our Parents Sins being of a more Diminute Nature