Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 18:14
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Ezekiel18:14
14 Now lo, if he beget a son that seeth all his fathers sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doth not the like.
A third instance in a supposed Sons Son to clear the case fully: The just Father lives, his unjust Son dyeth, but the Grandson of the just seeing his Fathers sins, and flying them, lives.
It is rare that the children of debauched Parents do think, or discern evil in their Parents courses, but blindly follow them, without putting difference between what is good, and what is bad, in that the Father doth, such suffer for their own sins more than for their Fathers; but if it be so that the Son of a wicked Father act like a man, bring his Fathers doings to the rule, and thereby discover the wickedness, and danger of them, and do not the like, he shall not suffer for his Fathers sins.
The kinds, or many of the several sorts of his sins, for 'tis not possible the Son should see all the particular acts of sin done by his Father.
Looks throughly into these things, and weighs the importance of them, considers God is our Sovereign, ought to be obeyd, will bless the obedient, will punish the disobedient, that his blessing is the Life and welfare, his curse is the death and misery of Souls, that every man should look particularly to his own duty and happiness, that 'tis better be happy with God, obeying him, than to perish with a Father by imitating his vices, That God will be gracious to the obedient, according to his rich grace, though they be the Children of irreligious Idolaters, and Adulterers, &c. on which, or such like considerations, if the Son choose holiness, and walk in it, he shall live, his end shall not, because his doings were not, be like his Fathers.
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