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Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
Meditations and discourses on the glory of Christ, in his person, office, and grace with the differences between faith and sight applied unto the use of them that believe / by the late Reverend John Owen, D.D.
London: printed by B.A., 1691
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 9: The Glory of Christ in his intimate Conjunction with the Church.
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 sins 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. 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,