...Traces of the number four, used in a somewhat similar sense, may be seen in the phrases : " Visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ;" " in the fourth year the fruit shall be holy ;" the four kingdoms, in the book of Daniel...

...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...

...condition ! What an awful inheritance is left to them, when the Lord says, I am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ! They inherit no religious instruction — no pious example — no...

...character and to good. "God layeth up the iniquity of the wicked for his children," — " Visiting 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, that...

...God threatens the Jews as well as others, in his law given on Mount Sinai, that " he will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ;" which was already shown, that it extends to the seal of the covenant. And judicious Calvin*...

...into four books, ii. 126 ; translated into French metre by Clement Marot, iii. 495. Punishment of the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation, God vindicated in doing so, i. 353. Purgatory, attempts of the Papists to support it from...

...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...

...good ones, operate for generations ; all history testifies that " God if a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation." We can see this especially in the elites of the history of nations, by tracing them to...

...and their wives be widows, as God visits the iniquities of the fathers upon the children to the thud and fourth generation.* If you will take some money,...— I know all the merchants for a hundred miles up die river — they have, many of them, purchased their rum of me, — I will take a journey, and get...

...character and to good. ' God layeth up the iniquity of the wicked for hia children,' — ' Visiting 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, that...