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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.
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 Jer. 32. 18. All is fore-faulted▪ the whole Stock, and Family. Concerning which, let us take these three Considerations along with us.
1. That these Children punished, are not innocent in themselves, but being guilty before the Lord by Original Corruption; or by both it and Actual Sin, making themselves liable to such Plagues; they have no reason to say, The Fathers have eaten sour Grapes; and the Children's Teeth are set on edge: For whether the Judgements be Temporal or Spiritual, the Children have deserved them, and cannot say they are wronged. And this Consideration reconcileth this place, with that of Ezekiel, where God putteth them to it, thus: None Innocent are plagued; but ye are plagued: therefore saith he, Read your own sin out of your Plagues.