A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

Because, though we cannot bear that others should beat and scourge us, yet our Parents, as having power upon a just cause to punish by virtue of their Superiority, and our dependence upon them, whose end is, or should be, their Children's reformation, and therefore is in mercy to prevent further sin and misery; in compliance with God's command they correct their offspring, to save it from hell: though many an inconsiderate Child, may at present conceive the Father correcting to be a severe Judge, when as to intended amendment, he is indeed a loving Father: So that though it seem to be jarring and harsh music, disagreeable to the faulty Patient, yet it will sound sweeter to the judicious ear, than the melody of a luscious and disorderly indulgence. Ingenuous Children have acknowledged the benefit of Paternal correction, especially after they have sought to God by Prayer, that God would sanctify the rod to their good. That was a good practical answer ⟨p. 404⟩of one of Zeno's Scholars, ¹who to his Father, asking what wisdom he had learned by being so long abroad, said, He was able to show it at any time: which he did to the purpose not long after, when, his Father chastising him with strokes, he took it quietly and patiently; showing that he could sustain the displeasure of his Parent without any untoward reparties. In short, Children should in all these duties deport themselves with piety toward their Parents, being in that relation they bear the image of God, as Creator, Upholder, and Governor of the World. So that resistance, yea, surly and rude replies, are a token of ill behaviour under Government, and do disguise Children of the most comely structure in the world. Thus of the first general in Children's duties.

Because, though we cannot bear that others should beat and scourge us, yet our Parents, as having power upon a just cause to punish by vertue of their Superiority, and our dependence upon them, whose end is, or should be, their Childrens reformation, and therefore is in mercy to prevent further sin and misery; in complyance with God's command they correct their ofspring, to save it from hell: though many an inconsiderate Child, may at present conceive the Father correcting to be a severe Judge, when as to intended amendment, he is indeed a loving Father: So that though it seem to be jarring and harsh musick, disagreeable to the faulty Patient, yet it will sound sweeter to the judicious ear, than the melody of a luscious and disorderly indulgence. Ingenuous Children have acknowledg'd the benefit of Paternal correction, especially after they have sought to God by Prayer, that God would sanctifie the rod to their good. That was a good practical answer