480 Chap.20. An Expofitionupon the Book of J OB. Verf t o, laid ; Goe thou upalfa to heaven, even as Eliahdid, that we may be ridof thee as well as we are of him. Children are apt to imitate their parents in every thing, but they are bell at imitating thofe things which are worft. They quickly write after ill Copies. And they who imitate the moral! evills of their fathers, (hall be lure to inherit their palm!! c vills,and have new ones prepared for them. Secondly , Obferve; It is a great punijbment neonparents, either tofee theirchildren come to mifery in theworld, or ifmifery come upon their chil- dren after themfelves aregone out ofthe world. Though Zophar heredefcribes themifery ofthe wicked mans children , yet his (cope is to fet forth the mifery of their parents, who are fmitten upon the childrensbackes. When Noah awoke from his wine, and knewwhat his younger fon had done untohim, as alfo howCham faw his nakedneffe, and mocked, (he not out ofa vain pafìron as tome parents will when their children difpleafe them, but) by divine infpirati- on, or being find with a prophetick fpiritpronounceth a curie upon him ; yet he put his Eons name into thecurie not his : And hefaid,Curfedbe Canaan(Gen. y. 24,25.) why Canaan ?it was Cham the father of Canaan that finned, yet when 2(oáh comes to curfe, he doth not fay, turfed be Cham, but Canaan, not that Canaan fhould be curled, and his fatherefcape, but it was to thew that Cham fhouldbe under a curie ; For feeing his potterity thould beunder a curie, then much more he ; for as much as, befides what fell upon him perfonally, the curie fal- linguponhis pofteritie, wasalfo his. When a curie falls upon ;children the father is cuffed, as in the blefling ofthechildren the father is bleffed (Gen. 48. 15,x6; )3ofephbrought his two founts Manafeth& Ephraim to his age father 7aco6, that they might receive his bleffing, who layinghis handsupon their heads,Bleç fed 7ofephandfaid,Godbefore whommyfathers _Abrahamand Ifa ac didwake, the Clodwhichfedmeall my.life longunto thír day, The Angel which redeemed me from all mill 6le e the Lads. Now as ?ecob in blefling the children of?oreph, bleffed 7ofepb ya!erivtoli!, r, himfelfe; foNah in curling the children of Cham,curfed Cham ,Cep. ?A himfelfe,A veryHeathen bath obferved concerning the Tyrant Tionyf :are,
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