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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.
5. What is threatened here, must especially in the Event▪ Light upon the third and fourth generation, And not ordinarily go beyond that. Now ordinarily the Children of wicked men in outward things, thrive best unto the third and fourth generation; and after that come their temporal Judgement; therefore it cannot be that, which is here only, or Principally, meant.
5. What is threatned here, must especially in the Event▪ Light upon the third and fourth generation, And not ordinarily go beyond that. Now ordinarily the Children of wicked men in outward things, thrive best unto the third and fourth generation; and after that come their temporal Judgement; therefore it cannot be that, which is here only, or Principally, meaned.
6. Consider Cain, Ham, &c. upon whose Posterity, this Curse was peculiarly derived, and there you will find somewhat more then what is Temporal.
The Second thing to be cleared here, is, the Party threatened to be thus punished: It is not the Fathers that are expressed, but the Children after them, as it is Jer. 32. 18. All is fore-faulted▪ the whole Stock, and Family. Concerning which, let us take these three Considerations along with us.
The Second thing to be cleared here, is, the Party threatned to be thus punished: It is not the Fathers that are expressed, but the Children after them, as it is