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So far is God from punishing the sins of guilty parents on innocent children, as in the last instance, Eze_18:14 to the end of Eze_18:20, appears, that he doth not punish the guilty for their own sins which they repent of and forsake. Our God, who mercifully pardoneth the penitent all their own sins, will not, cannot be supposed to charge innocent ones with the sins which are not their own.
The wicked; or a wicked man, any wicked man among you, O Jews! who charge me with such severity, if the most notorious sinner.
Turn, i.e. repent, for it is expressed by that word which implies repentance, and by the subsequent fruits of repentance.
From all; it must be a total renouncing of sin.
His sins that he hath committed; the penitent are most afflicted with the remembrance of their own sin, that which they committed, and watch most against it for the future.
Keep all my statutes; resolve to endeavour seriously and diligently, for in God’s merciful judgment a gracious penitent soul keeps what he would keep, keeps all his statutes, in that he would transgress none of them.
He shall surely live; he shall be pardoned, escape punishments, it shall be well with him: and this is the constant method of God’s proceedings with his people; he calls them to himself by promises of pardon, he never frights them from him by threatening to punish others’ faults on their backs. Leave your own, and you shall never suffer for others’ sins.