As Job sayes, God has strook them as wicked men in the open sight
of others, Job 34. 26. So that I cannot conceive, since their sin
and Judgment was so conspicuous, that my admonishing the world
thereof, should turn to their detriment: For the publishing of
these things, are, so far as Relation is concerned, intended for
remembrancers: That they may also bethink themselves, repent and
turn to God, lest the Judgments for their sins should prove
hereditary. For the God of Heaven hath threatned to visit the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children, if they hate him, to the
third and fourth generation, Exod. 20. 5.

Nebuchadnezzars punishment for his pride being open, (for he was
for his sin, driven from his Kingly dignity, and from among men
too, to eat grass like an Ox, and to company with the beasts,)
Daniel did not stick to tell Belshazzar his son to his face
thereof; nor to publish it that it might be read and remembred by
the generations to come. The same may be said of Judas and
Ananias, &c. for their sin and punishment were known to all the
dwellers at Jerusalem, Acts 1. Chap. 5.

Nor is it a sign but of desperate impenitence and hardness of
heart, when the offspring or relations of those who have fallen by
open, fearfull and prodigious Judgments, for their sin, shall
overlook, forget, pass by, or take no notice of such high outgoings
of God against them and their house. Thus Daniel aggravates
Belshazzars crime, for that he hardened his heart in pride, though
he knew that for that very sin and transgression his father was
brought down from his height, and made to be a companion for Asses.
And thou his son, O Belshazzar, sayes he, hast not humbled thy