The Fountain of Life Opened

It's a saying frequent among the Jews,¹ a Child should rather labour at the Mill than suffer his Parents to want. And to the same sense is that other saying, your Parents must be supplied by you, if you have it, if not, you ought to beg for them, rather than see them perish.² It was both the comfort and honour of Joseph, that God made him an instrument of so much succour and comfort to his aged Father, and distressed family, Gen. 47.13. And you are also to know, that what you do for them, is not in the way of an alms, or common Charity. For the Apostle saith; it is but your requiting them, and that's Justice not Charity. And it can never be a full requital. Indeed the Apostle tells us, 2 Cor. 12.14. That Parents lay up for their Children, and not Children for the Parents, and so they ought, but sure, if providence blast them, and bless you, an honourable maintenance is their due. Even Christ himself took care for his Mother.

It's a saying frequent among the Jews,¹ a Child should rather labour at the Mill than suffer his Parents to want. And to the same sence is that other saying, your Parents must be supplyed by you, if you have it, if not, you ought to beg for them, rather than see them perish.² It was both the comfort and honour of Ioseph, that God made him an instrument of so much succour and comfort to his aged Father, and distressed family, Gen. 47.13. And you are also to know, that what you do for them, is not in the way of an alms, or common Charity. For the Apostle saith; it is but your requiting them, and that's Justice not Charity. And it can never be a full requital. Indeed the Apostle tells us, 2 Cor. 12.14. That Parents lay up for their Children, and not Children for the Parents, and so they ought, but sure, if providence blast them, and bless you, an honourable maintenance is their due. Even Christ himself took care for his Mother.