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

3. That our first Parents had religious Worship in their Family, appears by the religious education of their Children. Do you think that when they had undone their children, and yet God had discovered a way of salvation to them, that they did not timely tell their children of this? Had they exposed their children's souls to Hell and to damnation, and yet not tell them and teach them God's gracious dealings with them, by which it might be prevented? Do you think that they did not pray with them, that themselves and theirs might be indeed partakers of this mercy? Is it likely that Adam and Eve did not acquaint their children how God did make them in a blessed condition, and how they lost it, and how God himself had been with them after they had so offended, and made known a way of salvation to them? Would not their natural affection to their children, and the sense of God's mercy, put them on to instruct them in these things, and praise God with them for his love, and pray for the certain fruits and benefits of it?

3. That our first Parents had religious Worship in their Family, appears by the religious education of their Children. Do you think that when they had undone their children, and yet God had discovered a way of salvation to them, that they did not timely tell their children of this? Had they exposed their childrens souls to Hell and to damnation, and yet not tell them and teach them God's gracious dealings with them, by which it might be prevented? Do you think that they did not pray with them, that themselves and theirs might be indeed partakers of this mercy? Is it likely that Adam and Eve did not acquaint their children how God did make them in a blessed condition, and how they lost it, and how God himself had been with them after they had so offended, and made known a way of salvation to them? Would not their natural affection to their children, and the sense of God's mercy, put them on to instruct them in these things, and praise God with them for his love, and pray for the certain fruits and benefits of it?

Obj. This might make it probable, ¹