| 1811 - 854 pages
...to attach blame to me for transactions which took place before those to whom I am (indebted for nay existence were born, I will only say, that we are...the third and fourth generation ; but that I did not expert that even that right honourable gentleman would have arrogated to himself such a power. £ leave... | |
| Daniel Whitby - 1816 - 488 pages
...of the Old Testament, though he were just, could not be good, because he threatened to " punish the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation." ' Origen answers, " That it was as little consistent with justice, ai with goodness, that... | |
| Philip Skelton - 1824 - 562 pages
...this as unjust, is Atheism, or blasphemy. ' I will visit/ saith God in the second commandment, ' the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation.' If men may not in any case justly suffer for the sins of others, why did the hardness... | |
| Philip Skelton - 1824 - 1090 pages
...this as unjust, is Atheism, or blasphemy. ' I will visit,' saith God in the second commandment, ' the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation.' If men may not in any case justly suffer for the sins of others, why did the hardness... | |
| 1882 - 224 pages
...nothing — you have repelled our faith, and refused all the rights of our holy religion, and the Lord visits the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation.' A thrill of horror, and involuntary shuddering was frit by every person, as a clerical... | |
| 1829 - 48 pages
...two onty been the perpetrators of guilt and crime ? No ! God, although " a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation," would not have doomed the unborn innocents of future ages, and in countless millions,... | |
| Benjamin Godwin - 1830 - 198 pages
...or who inherit the fruits of their ancestors' misdoings ; and it is thus that Providence sometimes visits " the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation." The Parliament of Britain has made the acknowledgment, in the face of the world, that... | |
| Visitation of the sick Order for the - 1830 - 90 pages
...too apS to imitate them, and because we learn from the second commandment, that God will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hate him. In this prayer we also earnestly offer our petitions to the Father... | |
| W. Humble - 1833 - 84 pages
...transgressions, be involved in temporal evils, such as poverty and disease, which is the meaning of visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. '24. Of what is this chapter, sufficient to convince any reasonable person, who will read... | |
| Eusebius (of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea) - 1833 - 502 pages
...crimes. For the declaration of God respecting such, proved its truth, when he said, ' visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generations of them that hate me.' For heaping his own wicked passions, in the gratification of which... | |
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