John Trapp on Joel 1:3

Verſe 3. Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children,] Heb. Cipher them up diligently, after the manner of A[illegible: 1 letter]ithmeticians: reckon up the ſeverall years,Deut. 19.20. with the ſeverall calamities thereof to your children and nephews; that they may hear, and fear, and do no more ſo. Let your woes be their warnings, your ſufferings their ſtanding-ſermons; your corrections their inſtructions. See 1 Cor. 10.5, to 12.Greg. Mor. Ruina majorum ſit cautela minorum. Haſt thou marked the old-way (ſaith Eliphas to Job, Chap. 22.15, 16.) which wicked men have trodden, which were cut down out of time: whoſe foundation was overflowen with a flood, (Heb. a flood was poured upon their foundation) which ſaid unto God, Depart from us, &c? He ſpeaketh of thoſe Antediluvian Atheiſts, buried in one univerſall grave of waters. See Ioſh. 22.20. Neh. 13.26. Iude 5, 6, 7. and learn to keep a Catalogue of Gods great works, whether of mercy or judgement; yea to poliſh and garniſh them for the uſe of poſterity, not with vain affectation of wit, not with pedantick pomp of words, but with ſobriety, and holy gravity, as here: ſuch as may ſtick by our children, and leave impreſſion.