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(2.) It is particularly of great use to acquaint children betimes with the stories of the scripture, and to make them familiar to them.
(3.) It is a debt we owe to the honour of God, and to the benefit of our children's souls, to tell them of the great works God has done for his church, both those which we have seen with our eyes done in our day and which we have heard with our ears and our fathers have told us: Thou shalt show thy son in that day (the day of the feast) these things. When they were celebrating the ordinance, they must explain it. Everything is beautiful in its season. The Passover is appointed for a sign, and for a memorial, that the Lord's law may be in thy mouth.
Note, We must retain the remembrance of God's works, that we may remain under the influence of God's law. And those that have God's law in their heart should have it in their mouth, and be often speaking of it, the more to affect themselves and to instruct others.
9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a
memorial between thine eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee out of Egypt.
10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year
to year.
11 And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of
the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
12 that thou shalt set apart unto the Lord all that openeth the matrix,
and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the male shall be the Lord’s.
Further directions concerning the dedicating of their firstborn to God.