1 saw your Fathers

I saw your Fathers.

We should lay to heart God's love to our Fathers, and seek to continue it to our selves. It's a sad thing to look upon degenerate children who have had fathers whom God took delight in. Your Fathers were as clusters of grapes that did refresh the very soul of God; as it is said of wine, that it does cheer both God and man; so the grace and holiness of your forefathers, Oh! how refreshing were they to the heart of God? But what are you, you are sour in the taste of God, what delight can God take in your unsavory and rotten corrupted spirits? Oh! it's a comfortable thing when a child is able to say, as (Exodus 15:2), My God, and my father's God, God was my Father's God, and delighted in my Father, and blessed be his Name he is my God, and I hope he has some delight in me. You who are the children of Fathers whom God delighted in as grapes in the wilderness, it's a mighty engagement for you to look to your selves that your hearts and lives be not corrupt, but follow the steps of your fathers, that God may delight likewise in you. But further;