Se ned by Law and Prophets. + Not only wink'd ar, or not hindred, 2 bur hath been a forward, voluntary, aCtive doer of them. 7 That 18 0 | ite here, and elſewhere in this Prophet, and in others, charged asthe | on the Jews as the Caule of their Calamities at this _ k Great njury " *&Þ Fnormities, Sins to be abominated and hated, not pratiſed and juſti- ender, IF ficd by ſhamelels Sinners. / Moſt certainly die, or if you ſuppoſe Wy YT 28 ſuch an one finally impenitenr, he ſhall ſurely die under Temporal pf the " & Judgments ; and fo by firſt Death fall under the ſecond Deata alto : ed lis L388 Dying he ſhall die, a Hcbrew Phraſe, and very full. m Heb. ,Tis plu- 3g the " "& 731, Bloods ; both the Blood of the Innocent which he murdered, and _ of | 2 his own Blood which thereby he forfeited ; the Blood of his own Soul 1KS If, and Life; that is, the whole blame of his Miſery in Time and Erer- 1s not niry, ſhall lie upon himſfeif, who brought all thoſe Sorrows on him- _ ſelt by his own Wickednefles.. gy 14 < Now » lo, if he beget a ſon that » ſeeth p all his e allo; father*s ſins which he hath done,and'q conlidereth,and doeth on, or not the like, ſe tho n A third Inſtance in a ſuppoſed Son's Son to clear the Caſe fully : hana The juſt Father lives, his unjuſt Son dieth, but the Grandſon of the I ſup- juſt, ſeeing his Father's Sias, and fleeing them, ives, olt is rare that e Day the Children of debauched Parents do think, or diſcern evil in theit ed the Parents Courſes, but blindly fo!low them, withour putting difference e tobe between what is good, and what is bad, in that the Father doth : ſuch na ft ſuff.r for their own Sins more than for their Fathers. But if it be ſo f Len- that the Son of a Wicked Father a& like a Man, bring his Father's drawn doings to the Rule, and thereby diſcover the Wickedneſs and Danger c Tis of them, and do not the like, he ſhall not ſuffer for his Father's Sins. if tie *# 2? Th: kinds, or many of the ſeveral ſorts of his Sins; for 'tis not poſſi. akess RES ble the Son ſhould ſee all the particular As of Sin done by his Father. 2c anſ; Ree JLooks throughly into theſe things, and weighs the Importance of! on by = them conſiders God is our Sovereign, ought to be obeyed, will bleſs | vill a the Obedieht, will piniſh the Diſobedient ; that his bleſſing is the orroW- | Life and Welfare, his Curſe is the Death and Miſery of Souls; that e- if, 15 27 very Man ſhould look particularly to his own Duty and Happineſs ; 877 bat 'ris berter be happy with God, obeying him, than to periſh pt my | . with a Father by imitating his Vices; that God will be gracious to the Firely : | Obcdient, according to his rich Grace, though they be the Children of | EE Pilegious Idolaters rnd Adulterers, &c. on which, or ſuch like Con- (11erations, if the Son chooſe Holineſs, and walk in it, he ſhall live, ro the tis End ſhall not, becauſe his doings were not, be like his Father's. _— ..15 T5at hath nor eaten upon the mountains, neither hath + Heart ltr up his eyes to the idols of the houſe of Iſrael, hath not cords defiled
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16 Neither hath oppreſſed any, hath +: not with-ho!dent Heb. er the pledge, neither hath ſpoiled by violence, bt hath given? _ wn his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a Sg garment, pleage,
Theſe two Verſes are explained already in the fame Words, {2 ver. 6, and 7.
17 That hath r taken off bis hand from t&- poos, 5 that hath not received uſury nor increats, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my [tatutes ; he ſhall not die for the iniquity of his father, he ſhall ſurely live.
r,WithdraWn his Hand. from hurting or wronging the Poo -ho' he had Power and Might to do it ſecurely. 5 Ses wer: $, 9. where theſe Particulars are explain'd. )
18 As for his father, becauſe he # cruelly oppreſicd,
ſpoiled his brother by violence, and did har which 7s not good among his people, lo, even he ſhall dic in his iniquity. | |
z Oppreſſing, he oppreſt ; and ſpoiling, ſpoiled ; did ail the Mig chief he could, he ſhall die.
19 T = Yet fay x ye, Why ? doth nat the y» fon bear the iniquity of che father ? when the ſon hat; done chat which is lawful and righe, and hath & kent all iay
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« Notwiſtanding this Method of the Divine Jul:;-- ENG: ders to every one his own Work, and gives to every on: -..- his own Doings. x Proud, quarreling, f/f-juſtifying LU:
Idolaters, Adulterers, Murderers, Ulurers, Opprefſors wii:
your own Sins, for which you are puniſh'd, bur cry you ace inno; + that your Fathers ſinn'd and you Suffer. y Th: Propher here br; in what he met with among them, til] every wh-re they in{i{} on'r, that they deferved not by any Sin of their own what they now 1i:iF2r- ed,and ſo would caſt the Sin and Guilr on their Fathers,and the Rigerr and Severity on God, and clear themſelves to all, which the Proper anſwers by a Recapitulation of what he had more largely ſpoken, and avows it, That the righteous Son of an unrighteour Father ſhall live, and not die. & As P/al. 119, 44.
20 The 4 ſoul that ſinneth, it ſhall die: * the fon ſhall *Dcur.24. not bear the 5 iniquity of the father, neither ſhall the 16- father bear the iniquity of the fon ; the c righteouſneſs of Et. of the righteous ſhall be upon him, and the 4 wickednefs "civon of the wicked ſhall be upon him 5