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 quent Hints, that to adopt the Fruits of Sin was to give countenance to it. He quoted everal Texts (for he was well read in Scripture) uch as, He viits the Sins of the Fathers upon the Children; and, the Fathers have eaten four Grapes, and the Children's Teeth are et on edge, &c. Whence he argued the Legality of punihing the Crime of the Parent on the Battard. He aid, ‘Tho’ the Law did not poitively allow the detroying uch bae-born Children, yet it held them to be the Children of no body; that the Church conidered them as the Children of no body; and that at the bet, they ought to be brought up to the lowet and vilet Offices of the Commonwealth.’

Mr. Allworthy anwered to all this and much more which the Captain had urged on this Subject, ‘That however guilty the Parents might be, the Children were certainly innocent. That as to the Texts he had quoted, the former of them was a particular Denunciation againt the Jews for the Sin of Idolatry, of relinquihing and hating their heavenly King; and the latter was parabolically poken, and rather intended to denote the certain and neceary Conequences of Sin, than any