 | John Bainbridge Smith - Theology, Doctrinal - 1836 - 654 pages
...law, rather than the rewards and punishments of futurity. With regard to the second objection against the denunciation, 'That God would visit the sins of the fathers upon the children ;' the only circumstance that causes it to appear severe or unjust, is the supposition... | |
 | Jesse Appleton - Congregational churches - 1836 - 516 pages
...as well as they. In this latter sense it is true, that God visits the iniquity of the parents on the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hate him. But in the former sense, it is true that the child shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor the... | |
 | Benjamin Godwin - Slavery - 1836 - 262 pages
...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... | |
 | Enchiridion - 1837 - 762 pages
...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 images but those... | |
 | Charles A. Smith - Lutheran Church - 1837 - 324 pages
...commandments, which constitute the moral law: "I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments." We learn... | |
 | Eusebius (of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea) - Church history - 1838 - 448 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - German literature - 1838 - 476 pages
...condemnable at a single glance. It is nothing but the old story of Fate ; an invisible Nemesis visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ; a method almost as common and sovereign in German Art, at this day, as the method of steam... | |
 | Protestant association - 1853 - 406 pages
...shalt not adore them, nor serve them. I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments." This... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1840 - 534 pages
...that hate me j and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my " commandments." THE consistency and necessity of temporal sanctions in...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,... | |
 | Elocution - 1840 - 322 pages
...thyself to them', nor serve them'; for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God', visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them who hate me', and showing mercy to thousands of them who love me and keep my commandinents. Thou shalt... | |
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... you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation... 
