...Religion promised: — " For I,the Lord " thy God," it is said, " am a jealous God, " and visit the sins of the fathers upon " the children, unto the third and fourth " generations of them that hate me, and " shew mercy unto thousands of them " that love me and keep my command" ments."...

...shalt not bow down to them nor worship them, for I. the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate me, and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me and keep my commandments....

...subjected himself and all his posterity for ever to eternal damnation. This is worse than visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations. But how was the death of Jesus Christ to affect or alter the case ? — Did God thirst for blood ?...

...have been inferred. God had declared not only that he was a jealous God, but that he would "visit the ing of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him? For whom the Lord lov and had justified in several instances this idea that he had given of himself. When Moses had addressed...

...parents are transmitted to their progeny; verifying the declaration of God, that he will visit the sins of the fathers, upon the children unto the third and fourth generations of those that violate his imperative laws, and that his blessings extend to thousands of those who...

...at the close of the second commandment : " For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate me, and show mercy unto thousands on them that love me and keep my commandments."...

...violated laws of humanity and justice. This is exactly a case to which the awful words, " I will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations," most manifestly apply. On the edge of this prairie, and in various situations not far distant from...

...passed for a portion of the salt of the earth. I never proceeded against him on account of his connexion with the squatters, and he lived his time in a sort...owners of Mooseridge have succeeded in selling all the VOL. III. P lots they wished to put into the market, and large sums stand secured on them, in the way...

...the Divine favour. This is a law of God's government, and corresponds to that other law by which He visits the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations. 3. iJTpTS His righteousness, or justice. The same expression we had in Ps. cxi. 3, applied to God;...

...persons, or in those of their descendants." " That is' what is meant, my father says, by visiting ' the sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generations.' But there is the party, with their prisoners, just entering the village. Who is your companion, Mr....