A37046:447
The law unsealed
The law unsealed: or, A practical exposition of the Ten Commandments With a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience. By the learned, laborious, faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Durham, late minister of the Gospel at Glasgow.
Glasgow: printed by Robert Sanders, 1676
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.
For clearing this, let us see. First, What is the Punishment here threatened? 2. On whom it is? Upon the Children of them that transgress this Command. 3. How it is executed? 4. Why the Lord doth so? That we may vindicate this place, and clear it from appearance of Contradiction, with that in Ezekiel 18. Where it is said, The Son shall not lear the Iniquity of his Father.
For clearing this, let us see. First, What is the Punishment here threatned? 2. On whom it is? Upon the Children of them that transgress this Command. 3. How it is executed? 4. Why the Lord doth so? That we may vindicate this place, and clear it from appearance of Contradiction, with that in Ezekiel 18. Where it is said, The Son shall not lear the Iniquity of his Father.
The First Question then; is, What it is that is here Threatened? Answ. We do not think that this place speaketh only of Temporal Punishments, and that of Ezekiel of Eternal: For the scope of both, will contradict this; for that passage Ezek. 18. is occasioned from the People present straits, and speaketh directly of Temporal Judgements; so, that Distinction will not clear this seeming Contradiction. Therefore we conceive here to be understood mainly Spiritual and Eternal Evils, which God threateneth to the Children of Wicked Parents. (For, that Temporal Judgements follow them, and are included in the Threatening there is no question.)
The First Question then; is, What it is that is here Threatned? Answ. We do not think that this place speaketh only of Temporal Punishments, and that of Ezekiel of Eternal: For the scope of both, will contradict this; for that passage Ezek. 18. is occasioned from the People present straits, and speaketh directly of Temporal Judgements; so, that Distinction will not clear this seeming Contradiction. Therefore we conceive here to be understood mainly Spiritual and Eternal Evils, which God threatneth to the Children of Wicked Parents. (For, that Temporal Judgements follow them, and are included in the Threatning there is no question.)