A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is

Let parents then take heed of remissness, lest their children roaring in hell do continually curse them for their negligence. It's a known example of a young man carried to the place of execution, that cried out, Non Praetor, sed Mater, mea duxit ad furcam; It was not the Judge, but his mother brought him to that shameful death. There was in the Tabernacle Aaron's Rod, and the Manna, which some would have allegorically to signify the sweetness and benefit of Discipline, Iniquity then breedeth within us, all the wisest and severest education can no ⟨p. 449⟩more free a child from its inherent filthiness, then Paracelsus could make himself immortal, as he fondly boasted, if he had had the first ordering and dieting of his body. Hence the duty of parents is set down, Ephes. 6. 4. To bring up their children in the nature and admonition of the Lord. And Solomon, who was so tender, and only beloved in the sight of his mother, yet his parents were continually distilling wholesome precepts into him, as Prov. 4. 3, 4, 5, implying thereby, that none is without ignorance, without a proneness to evil; therefore is godly instruction so necessary. So that the Doctrine of original sin should greatly provoke fathers and mothers to their duties; Every mother should be a Monica to her Austin, that we may say, It is not possible, that Filius tot lachrymarum pereat, a son of so many prayers and tears should perish.

Let parents then take heed of remisness, lest their children roaring in hell do continually curse them for their negligence. It's a known example of a young man carried to the place of execution, that cried out, Non Praetor, sed Mater, mea duxit ad furcam; It was not the Judge, but his mother brought him to that shamefull death. There was in the Tabernacle Aarons Rod, and the Manna, which some would have allegorically to signifie the sweetness and benefit of Discipline, Iniquity then breedeth within us, all the wisest and severest education can no ⟨p. 449⟩more free a child from its inherent filthiness, then Paracelsus could make himself immortal, as he fondly boasted, if he had had the first ordering and dieting of his body. Hence the duty of parents is set down,