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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. THERE is an especial Relation required unto this Translation of Punishment. Such as that between Parents and Children, as in most of the Instances before given; or between a King and Subjects, as in the Case of David. Hereby the Persons sinning, and those suffering, are constituted one Body, wherein if one Member offend, another may justly suffer: The back may answer for what the hands takes away.
1. THERE is an especial Relation required unto this Translation of Punishment. Such as that between Parents and Children, as in most of the Instances before given; or between a King and Subjects, as in the Case of David. Hereby the Persons sinning, and those suffering, are constituted one Body, wherein if one Member offend, anonother may justly suffer: The back may answer for what the hands takes away.
2. IT consists in mutual Interest. Those whose sins are punished in others, have such an Interest in them, as that their being so, is a punishment unto themselves. Therefore are such sinners threatened with the punishment and evils that shall befall their Posterity or Children for their sakes which is highly penal unto themselves, Numb. 14. 33. Your Children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms. The Punishment due to their sins is in part transferred unto their Children, and therein did the sting of their own Punishment also consist.
2. IT consists in mutual Interest. Those whose sins are punished in others, have such an Interest in them, as that their being so, is a punishment unto themselves. Therefore are such sinners threatned with the punishment and evils that shall befall their Posterity or Children for their sakes which is highly poepal unto themselves, Numb. 14. 33. Your Children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms. The Punishment due to their sins is in part transferred unto their Children, and therein did the sting of their own Punishment also consist.