A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

2. In the ways and works of God's Providence. Thus Gideon gives testimony to his Forefathers, that they had told their Children of all the Miracles which the Lord had done; saying, did not the Lord bring us from Egypt? ¹Thus the Psalmist, Psal. 44.1, 2. We have heard with our ears, O God, ²our Fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. And again, Psal. 78.3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Sayings of old, which we have heard, and known, and our Fathers have told us. 4. We will not hide them from their Children, showing to the Generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful work that he hath done. ³5. For he established a Testimony in Jacob, and appointed a Law in Israel, which he commanded our Fathers that they should make them known to their children. 6. That the Generation ⟨p. 212⟩to come might know them, even the children which should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children. 7. That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God. Thus Hezekiah upon his recovery from death, Isa. 38.19. The living, the living he shall praise thee as I do this day; the Father to the Children shall make known thy truth. — They that survive, they alone can, and each of them should praise the Lord; this being the principal end to which men should live, and for which they should desire life, Psal. 80.18. The Father to the Children shall make known thy truth; i. e. they shall transmit the memory of thy faithfulness in the performance of thy promises to Posterity, Psal. 145.4.