The Evil of Evils, cr the } Yea further, this follows, That by goingon in I uvaies of fn, thof conefii to beslaty) andfi mdej1 char- ged for all the fins that ever n'ere. committed in the world: This may feem to be a hard thing, to charge any man or woman that now lives in . waies offin, that by that fin of thine that thou now livefl in, thou comefl to be guilty ofall the fins that ever was done in the world, fince the beginning of the world. Iundertake to make that good thus; You know the Scripture char geth thole that perfecuted the Prophets,as guil- tyofall theperfecution ofthe Prophets that e- ver were, all the blood that was fhed fromAbel to Zacharias (tall come upon this Generation, faith Chrifl ; why fo ? why fhould all the blood flied from Abel to that time, come upon that Ge- neration ? The Realon is this, Becaufe they . continued the fucceflion ofthat fin of perfecuti- on oftheProphets, that as there was aperfecu- tienofthe Prophets before, fo they go on and uphold this fucceflionofthat fin. Now by the holding of the fucceflion of a way of fin, we come to be guilty of all that fin that went be- fore : As for example, Suppofe there fhouldbe Treafonagainfl a King or State, by force vile treafonable arc; now the Father commits the firfl all, the Sonafterward goethon in the fame way, and his Children come after him, and go- eth on in the fame way, and their Children af- ter them : now I fay, the Children, and the Grand-children, and the great Grand-children, are guilty of the frfl treafonable ad' that was committed ; why ? Becaufe they uphold the fucceflion
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