A Body of Practical Divinity

Name: A Body of Practical Divinity
Author: Thomas Watson

A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692

[5], iv, 300, 331-544, 801-880, 965-1007, [7] p. · 512k words · Wing W1109 · ESTC R32148

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Of the Ten Commandments.

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Quest But is it not said, Every one shall dye for his own Sin? The Son shall not bear the Iniquity of the Father? How then doth God say, he will visit the Iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children?

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Resp. Though the Son be not Damned for his Fathers Sin, yet he may be severely punished, Job 21.19. God lays up his iniquity for his Children. That is, God lays up the Punishment of his Iniquity for his Children; the Child smarts for the Fathers Sin. Jeroboam thought to have established the Kingdom by Idolatrous Worship, but it brought Ruin upon him and all his Posterity, 1 Kings 14.10. Ahab's Idolatry wronged his Posterity, they lost the Kingdom and were all Beheaded, 2 Kings 10.7. They took the Kings Sons, and slew seventy Persons. There God visited the I••quity of the Father upon the Children. As a Son catcheth an Hereditary Disease from his Father, the Stone or Gout; so he catcheth Misery from him, his Fathers Sin ruins him.

Resp. Though the Son be not Damned for his Fathers Sin, yet he may be severely punished, Iob 21.19. God lays up his iniquity for his Children. That is, God lays up the Punishment of his Iniquity for his Children; the Child smarts for the Fathers Sin. Ieroboam thought to have established the Kingdom by Idolatrous Worship, but it brought Ruin upon him and all his Posterity, 1 Kings 14.10. Ahab's Idolatry wronged his Posterity, they lost the Kingdom and were all Beheaded, 2 Kings 10.7. They took the Kings Sons, and slew seventy Persons. There God visited the I••quity of the Father upon the Children. As a Son catcheth an Hereditary Disease from his Father, the Stone or Gout; so he catcheth Misery from him, his Fathers Sin ruins him.

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Of the Commandments.