A30574:1602
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 10 › Verse 14 › As Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel.
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.
The sins of parents (you may see) many times comes upon little ones. 1What hath the poor Infant done? Oh! you tender-hearted ⟨p. 509⟩mothers, consider of this, how far your sin may reflect upon your children: If ever you should see bloody Soldiers to come in in a terrible way, (as sometimes you have had fears that way) and dash you upon your children, consider this is your sin that hath done it.
- 1Obs. 3.
But you will say, 1Shall the children suffer for the Fathers sin?
- 1Object.
Do not we read that God will visit the sins of Idolaters unto the third and fourth Generation?1 Indeed were your children innocent, had they no original sin, then it were another matter; but now considering they have enough in them to make them subjects of Gods wrath, God may take advantage the rather because of thy sin, and therefore take heed, an especially take heed to Gods Worship, for we do not find in Scripture where any children are so threatened as the children of Idolaters are.
Do not we reade that God will visit the sins of Idolaters unto the third and fourth Generation?