 | edmund ruffin - 1835 - 912 pages
...proceed to the objects of your inquiry and leave bad and blundering statesmen to the wrath of him, who visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. The provinces from Virginia to Georgia had been planted l>y the mother country for her... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - Christian life - 1835 - 158 pages
...children, may be proved from his dealings with the children of Israel; for he said he would "visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation." Lastly. I think these views are confirmed, by observing the actual condition of mankind... | |
 | Benjamin Godwin - Slavery - 1836 - 262 pages
...traffic, or who 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1840 - 534 pages
...to the objection which at first appears to arise from the denunciation, " That God would visit the sins of the 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,... | |
 | 1841 - 534 pages
...lived. How severe a commentary on the words, " For 1 the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation," is to be read in God's dealings with the Church during the rebellion against King Charles... | |
 | Children's literature - 1846 - 872 pages
...support order, truth, and piet}' — or to abet error, and exemplify the visitation of the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation. But I will pass from the remembrances of the remoter past, to speak of the death-bed scene of an elder... | |
 | Eusebius (of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea) - Church historians - 1842 - 502 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... | |
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Nemesis visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation... 
