...objects of your inquiry and leave bad and blundering statesmen to the wrath of him, who visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. The provinces from Virginia to Georgia had been planted l>y the mother country for her...

...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...

...God. And that we might not think it a light matter to provoke his jealousy, he adds, and I visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, I know who they are that would fain believe the worship of no other...

...their father's 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...

...to the objection which at first appears to arise from the denunciation, " That God would visit the sins of the fathers " upon the children, to the third and fourth generations of them " that hate him ; and show mercy unto thousands of them who " should love him,...

...Bishop Sanderson lived. How severe a commentary on the words, " For 1 the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation," is to be read in God's dealings with the Church during the rebellion against King Charles...

...their father's 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...

...whether Jewish or Christian, — whether from that first dispensation which declared Him* to visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Him, but to show mercy unto tens of thousands in them that love Him, or...

...and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. 19 Forgive this people their sin according to thy great mercy, as thou wast favourable...

...on the depravity of man in opposition to the righteousness of God, according to which he visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations, to which all of them agreed, and, therefore, nothing could be said against the necessity...