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CHAP. V.
Good Husbands labour for posterity,* 1.1 To after ages; Saints must have an eye.OBSERVATION.
PRovident and careful Husbandmen do not only labour to supply their own necessities while living, but to lay up something for their posterity when they are gone; they do not only leave to their children what their progenitors left them, but they desire to leave it improved and bettered. None but bad husbands and spend-thirfts are of the mind with that Heathen Emperor Tiberius, who having put all into such confusions in the Empire, that it might be thought the world would end with him; yet pleased himself with this apprehension, that he should be out of the reach of it; and would often say, When I am dead, let heaven and earth min∣gle; if the world will but hold my time, let it break when I am gone: But provident men look beyond their own time, and do very much concern themselves in the good or evil of their posterity.
APPLICATION.
VVHat careful Husbands do, with respect to the provi∣sions they make for their children, that all prudent Christians are bound to do, with respect to the truths com∣mitted to them, and do them, to be transmitted to succeeding Saints.
In the first age of the world, even till the Law was given, faithful men were instead of books and records; they did by oral tradition convey the truths of God to posterity; but since the sacred truth hath been consigned the writing, no such