A65285:2333
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Quest. How many ways may a Parent provoke his Children to Wrath?
Resp. 1. By giving them Opprobrious Terms. 1 Sam. 20.30. Thou Son of the perverse rebellious Woman, said Saul to his Son Jonathan. Some Parents use Imprecations and Curses to their Children. This is to provoke them to Wrath. Would you have God bless your Children, and do you curse?
Resp. 1. By giving them Opprobrious Tearms. 1 Sam. 20.30. Thou Son of the perverse rebellious Woman, said Saul to his Son Ionathan. Some Parents use Imprecations and Curses to their Children. This is to provoke them to Wrath. Would you have God bless your Children, and do you curse?
(2.) Parents provoke Children to Wrath, when they strike their Children without a Cause; or when the Correction exceeds the Fault. This is rather to be a Tyrant than a Father. Saul cast a Javelin at his Son to smite him, 1 Sam. 20.33. and his Son was provoked to Anger. Ver. 34. So Jonathan arose from the Table in fierce Anger. In Filium pater obtinet non tyrannicum imperium sed Basilicum. Davenant.
(2.) Parents provoke Children to Wrath, when they strike their Children without a Cause; or when the Correction exceeds the Fault. This is rather to be a Tyrant than a Father. Saul cast a Javelin at his Son to smite him, 1 Sam. 20.33. and his Son was provoked to Anger. Ver. 34. So Ionathan arose from the Table in fierce Anger. In Filium pater obtinet non tyrannicum imperium sed Basilicum. Davenant.