A37049:474
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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 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 Peoples 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 doe 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 Peoples 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).
This will be clear, 1st. By considering that the thing threatened here, is, that punishment which the Breach of, or Iniquity ⟨p. 115⟩committed against this Command, or other Commands, deserveth; yea it is the Punishment, that sinful Parents deserve, he Visiteth the Iniquities of the Fathers, on the Children, &c. But that which the Breach of this Law, or which the Parents Guilt deserveth, is Eternal Judgement, and not Temporal only. Ergo.
This will be clear, 1st. By considering that the thing threatned here, is, that punishment which the Breach of, or Iniquity