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Show Of·Wiff ·lfll Pt~~~ the Law "iven to the Hebrew.s, threaten~, he will punifh the iniquity of the fatherJ npon the children;Bu,t He hath a moH full right of dominion , as .over .ou~ goods '. fo over our Hves too , bemg h1s gift , wh1ch without any caufe , and at any time , he can takeaway from any one at his plcafure .. Wherefore if, by an immature and violent death , he (Ut off the children of ,. Stm: u. '(!/!(,'han, Saul, Jeroboam , eAhab; upoo 1 Reg. 14. them he ufes the right of dominion, not of a: ~ta~bi Si~ puni!11ment *; and , b.y the fame a~ , pu· meon Barfe- ni£heth the patents m a more gnev~us rna, very uuly. manner. For , whether they furvtve (which the Divine Law had very much rcfpeCt unto, and therefore extendeth not tho[e threats beyond ·the chiTdren of the It So Chry(o- third and fourth Generation , Exod. 20. fton1 obfev~s, becaufe a mans Age may be lengthened . :m~ with h1m to a fioht of them ; .and it is certain, the cpo 1 nfentehc\ y paren~s are punHbt with fuch a fpe6tacle; utarc ' a • . h * than iog, There i~ .. yea , it is more .gnev~us ~o t e1~, . no forer pu- . what they bear lU then ow_n pelfons.) or nifunlent,th;m whether they do not live \o long, yet to to ~ee tllofe, d. . that fear is no frrtall punillunenr. wh1ch had te 10 . · 1 I· their beeing The hardne[s of th~ p'eople , fatth ertHe· from us, to be /tan , brought m a necejfity of{tt~h rem .• miferable by dies that in contemplation ofthetr poftert ourfault. t t'they might frame thunfelvessmtoo· t Alexander J . h 11 fi te God apud Curtium. be die nee. But Wlt a we. mu no ~ ce t f. 1{onopor· doth not ufe this more heavy v~ngean 0 : teb~t "lJOS fcire except again!~ offenCeS commttted ?l • 9"'d dt IJu (l4· 1 to his own diChonour as falfewor tuiffem quo tri- per Y ~ . ~ .1 'N r did the (liorcs ptriretri. ·ibips ' perJune ' acn ege. o Greeki The [t&~htl part; Greeks thihk otherwife ; For, the crimes which were fuppofcd to make their polt~:- rity obnoxious ( w:hkh they call .;~. *) are "Vide Plurar..: all of that fort ; upon which aroument, chum Periclc: c:p luta~ch- difcourfeth eloquently' in his book of the late Reve.n:Pe of God v£- ,. L.1b~ 3· 43·· /tan * hath art Oracle ~f :Delpht ~o this tl~s ~i~ahn~us t:f: .a. , a 10 1au ,10mc: ene~~ : ofrhem had b;en pttni1hrs Inevitable Vtngeanc~ f rom above others nor yec, fallsJon~th~ wickfd, though ally'd to :~:~~~~:;,al~ ave , ne.ither them- Stil imminent it is o'r them and theirs [elves nor Succejfively entail'd upon their Heir/ ri}eir ;hildren,; ·,He faith rhc I . [1 k h f f: . I . like in another . t JS po en t ere o. acn ege t; and It Oration fee IS confirmed by the hJ!lory of the Tho/o- forth by Gofane gold in Strabo ·and GelliuJ. Like ien- ~hofred. , . tences we had afore of perjury. But to . And a pub: procee d , tdh o u g h G od ha t h t hr ea tned oltnc ko fd cthtee iflaa-rt-thus, yet oth he not always ufe that therscrime tight, efpecially if fome eminent vertue -..like rbar of' fuine forth in the Children, as we may Andronicus fee , E:z:..ech. t 8. and is proved by fome PhalEa:oJogus I · h . d t e m per our examp es m t e n~w-clte place uf Plu- in Grcgoras ,' · t,arch. And , fith m the new Covenant lib. f c 8x. . more openly than in the old , are decla- t J;'ercull. cle ied the , puniiliments , w hie h remai~ for Men : Dtfivit. the wicked after this life ·therefore in that puavtar.ab.terba a C . ' 1 U4 man· ovenant 1s_ there no commination t ex- dttcata dmtes ~ant exceedmg the perfons of tlie T ranf- filiorr11n ohfltt. ' gre~~rs ; . to . which ~urpofe , though lefs le(Ac~re: .. u~ufplamly, 1s that foreiaid paffaoe of E;r.,e- ~ttifildq,l~n.z.mzn , .. '.. hz· e t. No w rro r Me n, they mahy not imi~ 1r iu(.oi urt . ttlo mo, .. D d 2. tate |
