i.4. _A seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupters._
Transmitted depravity is--+I. A doctrine of Scripture. II. A fact in
human life.+[1] _Application_--1. God will not fail to make
allowance for it in dealing with us. 2. We should make allowance for
it in judging our fellow-men. Our censures should be mingled with
compassion. 3. By self-restraint and a life of virtue we should
endeavour as far as it is possible to cut off from our children this
and entail. A bias towards good may be transmitted as a bias towards
evil.[2] 4. In the _education_ of our children, we should be
especially solicitous to check and prevent the development of the
faults we have transmitted to them, that so, though they are "a seed
of evil-doers," they may not themselves be "corrupters."