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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
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Chapter 9: The Glory of Christ in his intimate Conjunction with the Church.
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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, 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 Canaan was cursed for the sin of his Father, Gen. 9. 25. Saul's seven Sons were put to death for their Fathers bloody Cruelty, 2 Sam. 21. 8. 14. For the Sin of David, seventy thousand of the People were destroyed by an Angel, concerning whom he said, It is I that have sinned and done evil, these sheep what have they done? 2 Sam. 24. 15, 17. See also