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…

4. If it be asked, Why God thus plagueth and threateneth the Children of wicked Parents? Answ. 1. God doth it to make sin hateful, seeing it bringeth often a forfeiture of spiritual blessings, yea, of blessings of all sorts, upon whole Generations and Families. 2. To strike the more terror into others, who by this may be scared from sin, and made to stand in awe of God, who is so dreadful as to put a mark of Infamy on the race ⟨p. 118⟩and posterity of his Enemies. 3. The more to affect and weight the Sinner; it is a part of his punishment to know that by his sin he has not only made himself miserable, but all his Posterity: And these may be the Reasons, why, as it were by the light of nature, all Nations in some cases are led not only to punish the persons of some Malefactors, but to fore-fault, an • put a note of Infamy on their Posterity, for some kind of faults. 4. This becometh Gods greatness, that men may know how sovereign he is; and how, Treason against the most high is to be accounted of▪ 5. It is to commend holiness, and the necessity of it, to God's people, and to put them to enrich themselves and their Children, in God, and a good Conscience, rather than in all temporal riches.

4. If it be asked, Why God thus plagueth and threatneth the Children of wicked Parents? Answ. 1. God doth it to make sin hateful, seeing it bringeth often a forfeiture of spiritual blessings, yea, of blessings of all sorts, upon whole Generations and Families. 2. To strike the more terrour into others, who by this may be scared from sin, and made to stand in awe of God, who is so dreadful as to put a mark of Infamy on the race ⟨p. 118⟩and posterity of his Enemies. 3. The more to affect and weight the Sinner; it is a part of his punishment to know that by his sin he has not only made himself miserable, but all his Posterity: And these may be the Reasons, why, as it were by the light of nature, all Nations in some cases are led not only to punish the persons of some Malefactors, but to fore-fault, an • put a note of Infamy on their Posterity, for some kind of faults. 4. This becometh Gods greatness, that men may know how soveraign he is; and how, Treason against the most high is to be accounted of 5. It is to commend holiness, and the necessity of it, to God's people, and to put them to enrich themselves and their Children, in God, and a good Conscience, rather than in all temporal riches.