...place, may be considered as part of the punishment for national offences, inflicted by Him who " visits the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation" — thus by a kind of retributive justice, avenging the many innocent nations which were...

...and perplexed. Do you not remember the text, in which it is distinctly declared that ' God will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation? ' " " I certainly do, and I remember too that all our best theologians assert that that...

...them, and thou shalt 9 not serve them ; for I Jehovah 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 ; but 10 shewing mercy to the thousandth of them who love me, and keep my commandments....

...the subsequent sins of his posterity ; and it is only thus, in the nature of things, that God visits the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. 28. But there are other ways through which the organic influences affect the mental powers...

...fact — they do suffer, and very many of them die ; so true is it, that God in nature does " visit the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ;" and with this fact before us, it is as useless as it is impious to murmur against God,...

...himself and the Jewish nation, — that of the married state. The other — " That he visits the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hate him," — involves the awful doctrine of the parental transmission of sins to children, and...

...and to be followed by a train of venereal diseases, which canker life at its very core, " and visit the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations ?" Was the deep-seated and natural sentiment of SELF-PRESERVATION, that essential safeguard...

...confirmation of the infere'nce from these narratives in the well-known declaration, that God will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ; and also in the general principle, both of the Bible and of God's providential government,...

...character and to good. " God layeth up the iniquity of the wicked for his children," — " Tisiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation." By which we are to understand, what is\ every day exhibited in actual historic proof,...

...confirmation of the inference from these narratives in the well-known declaration, that God will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ; and also in the general principle, both of the Bible and of God's providential government,...