Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy

5. Be more watchful over them hereafter, then you have been heretofore; have a care of […] them have their […], to go and come where and when they please, and especially in the night, be sure take an account of their business, and hold your Parental Authority over them, keep them within their bounds, you had better bear their ha•d thoughts of you now, then see them made vassals of Satan, and left up to Gods Judgements. If your Children resist or contemn your Authority, the Will of God is that you should not •ear with them, no• spare them; it is a great deal better they should live in ⟨p. 39⟩Bridewell under restraint; then in your families at their liberty.

5. Be more watchful over them hereafter, then you have been heretofore; have a care of 〈…〉 them have their 〈…〉, to go and come where and when they please, and especially in the night, be sure take an account of their business, and hold your Parental Authority over them, keep them within their bounds, you had better bear their ha•d thoughts of you now, then see them made vassals of Satan, and left up to Gods Judgements. If your Children resist or contemn your Authority, the Will of God is that you should not •ear with them, no• spare them; it is a great deal better they should live in ⟨p. 39⟩Bridewell under restraint; then in your families at their liberty.

6. See to your own lives, that they be exemplary to your Children, if you teach them never so carefully, yet if you unteach them again by your vain conversation before them, its little the better; think how much advantage you put into Satan's hands against your Children, to draw them into sin by your example, he knows well enough what a taking argument this is with Children.