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Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…
Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decays : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decayes : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...
London: printed by J.A. for William Marshall, 1691
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.
1. IT is not contrary unto the nature of Divine Justice; it doth not interfere with the principles of natural light in man, that in sundry cases some persons should suffer punishment for the fine and offences of others.
I SHALL at present give this Assertion no other confirmation, but only that God hath often done so, who will, who can do no iniquity.
SO he affirms that he will do, Exod. 20. 5. Visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children under the third and fourth generation. It is no exception of weight, that they also are sinners, continuing in their Fathers sins: for the worst of sinners must not be dealt unjustly withal; but they must be so if they are punished for their fathers sins, and it be absolutely unlawful that any one should be punished for the sin of another.
SO the Church affirms; Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have born their iniquities, Lam. 5. 11