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…

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. And so it was: For in the Babylonish captivity God punished the sins of their fore-fathers, especially those committed in the days of Manasseh, 2 King. 23. 26, 27. As afterwards in the final destruction of that Church and Nation, God punished in them the guilt of all bloody persecutions from the beginning of the world, Luke 11. 50, 51.

SO the Church affirms; Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have born their iniquities, Lam. 5. 11. And so it was: For in the Babylonish captivity God punished the sins of their fore-fathers, especially those committed in the days of Manasses,