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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 7: Quest. What may gracious Parents best do, for the Conversion of those Children whose wi…
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Thus you see, that Irregular Passions in severe Parents are no little Provocations and spurs to Sin, and wrath in their disobedient Children: They are like those smart Cantharides, or Spanish-flies, the most speedy, and effectual means to raise blisters.
(2.) By an austere look, grim, sour, louring, frowning countenance; when a man seems to carry revenge, daggers, death in his Face; when a ⟨p. 156⟩man usually looks on his Child,1 as Cain did on his Brother, as one highly displeased, that bears Ill-will, and ones him a grudge, and will be sure to pay it in due time. When the Child observes his Ancestors Crest portrayed on his Fathers forehead, and instead of smiles can see nothing there but cruel Lions, Bears, Tigers: This must needs highly provoke, and 'tis not to be wondered at, if the Child, in a fright, and dreadful indignation, cries out roaring, I do well to be angry, even to the Death. Better to be killed outright, than buried alive: No grave so dark, so dismal, as those deep furrows in my frowning, constantly frowning Fathers forehead.
(2.) By an austere look, grim, sour, louring, frowning countenance; when a man seems to carry revenge, daggers, death in his Face; when a ⟨p. 156⟩man usually looks on his Child,1 as Cain did on his Brother, as one highly displeas'd, that bears Ill-will, and ones him a grudge, and will be sure to pay it in due time. When the Child observes his Ancestors Crest pourtray'd on his Fathers forehead, and instead of smiles can see nothing there but cruel Lions, Bears, Tigers: This must needs highly provoke, and 'tis not to be wondred at, if the Child, in a fright, and dreadful indignation, cries out roaring, I do well to be angry, even to the Death. Better to be kill'd outright, than buried alive: No grave so dark, so dismal, as those deep furrows in my frowning, constantly frowning Fathers forehead.