| David Robertson - 1808 - 618 pages
...Wilkinson? Is he answerable for it? It was thought in days of yore, a hard rule, when they visited the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation; but it would be still harder to make general Wilkinson responsible for the supposed misconduct... | |
| James Morison - 1810 - 292 pages
...in which alone man can love God. ' For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, vi' siting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and ' fourth generation of them that hate me ; and shewing mercy unto ' thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.'... | |
| 1811 - 858 pages
...am (indebted for my existence were born, I will only say, that we are told the Almighty visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ; but that I did not expect that even that right honourable gentleman would have arrogated... | |
| 1811 - 854 pages
...am (indebted for nay existence were born, I will only say, that we are told the Almighty visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ; but that I did not expert that even that right honourable gentleman would have arrogated... | |
| Walter Scott - 1811 - 860 pages
...am ¡indebted for my existence were born, I will only say, that we are told the Almighty visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ; but that I did not expect that even that right honourable gentleman would have arrogated... | |
| 1841 - 712 pages
...children for the sake of their parents ? Does not God represent himself as " visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate him, and shewing mercy to thousands (of generations) of them that love him and keep his commandments T Now from... | |
| 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... | |
| Jared Sparks - 1824 - 402 pages
...declaration made to the Jewish people by the Almighty, that " he visiteth the iniquity of the father upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate him," furnishes us with another example of the same inconclusive mode of reasoning. An argument has been... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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