The Text before you, is the first of those Proverbs: and I make no doubt, that Solomon had his own, Only, Silly Son, in his Eye, when he Wrote it; the first part of the Text, his Father had fulfilled in Himself; the last part of the Text, Himself had fulfilled in Rehoboam. The Gladness of a Father, over a Wise Son, and the Sadness of a Mather, over a Foolish One, is in this Proverb Declared; Nevertheless, the Gladness of the Mother as well as the Father, over the Wise Son, and the Sadness of the Father as well as the Mother, over the Foolish One, is herein Implied. In the Concise Proverbs here, there is usually an […], to be so Compared, that something not Expressed, is to be fetched and learnt from each part as plainly to be understood. Yea, the Daughter as well as the Son, is herein also Comprehended. ⟨p. 8⟩But yet it may be worth while to Enquire, Why 'tis rather the Gladness of the Father than of the Mother, that is here mentioned upon the Wise Child? Unto this I answer; 'Tis because the Father ordinarily has most Share in procuring, and most Sense in perceiving, the Wisdom of his Children. When Children are come to such Maturity, that their Wisdom does become Observable, ordinarily the Mother has more dismissed them from her Conversation, that the Father has from his: and the Father is many ways more capable of the Joyful Resentments, arising from the Wisdom of His, I say, His, Well Educated Children appearing now abroad in the World: the Child is now more Emphatically become, an Abner, that is to say, The Father Light; or, an Abigail, that is to say, The Fathers Joy. But if you will go on to Enquire, Why 'tis rather the Sadness of the Mother, than of the Father that is mentioned upon the Foolish Child? Unto this I answer; 'Tis because when Children miscarry, the Mother is […] most Blamed for It: People will be most ready to say, and very Often say, it very Justly too, 'Twas […] of them, that betrayed them into the Sinful ⟨p. 9⟩F••y which is now so bred in the Bone, that it will never out of the Flash. 'Tis also because when Children miscarry, the Mother is ordinarily most Slighted by Them: 'Tis said, A Foolish man Des•i•eth his Mother; the Sinful Folly of the Young Wretches, makes them to trample more upon Her that •are them, than they dare to do upon Him that Begat them.
The Text before you, is the first of those Proverbs: and I make no doubt, that Solomon had his own, Only, Silly Son, in his Eye, when he Wrote it; the first part of the Text, his Father had fulfilled in Himself; the last part of the Text, Himself had fulfilled in Reheboam. The Gladness of a Father, over a Wise Son, and the Sadness of a Mather, over a Foolish One, is in this Proverb Declared; Nevertheless, the Gladness of the Mother as well as the Father, over the Wise Son, and the Sadness of the Father as well as the Mother, over the Foolish One, is herein Implied. In the Concise Proverbs here, there is usually an 〈…〉, to be so Compared, that something not Expressed, is to be fetch'd and learn't from each part as plainly to be understood. Yea, the Daughter as well as the Son, is herein also Comprehended. ⟨p. 8⟩But yet it may be worth while to Enquire, Why 'tis rather the Gladness of the Father than of the Mother, that is here mentioned upon the Wise Child? Unto this I answer; 'Tis because the Father ordinarily has most Share in procuring, and most Sense in perceiving, the Wisdom of his Children. When Children are come to such Maturity, that their Wisdom does become Observable, ordinarily the Mother has more dismissed them from her Conversation, that the Father has from his: and the Father is many wayes more capable of the Joyful Resentments, arising from the Wisdom of His, I say, His, Well Educated Children appearing now abroad in the World: the Child is now more Emphatically become, an Abner, that is to say, The Father Light; or, an Abigail, that is to say, The Fathers Joy. But if you will go on to Enquire, Why 'tis rather the Sadness of the Mother, than of the Father that is mentioned upon the Foolish Child? Unto this I answer; 'Tis because when Children miscarry, the Mother is 〈…〉 most Blamed for It: People will be most ready to say, and very Often say, it very Justly too, 'Twas 〈…〉 of them, that betray'd them into the Sinful ⟨p. 9⟩F••y which is now so bred in the Bone, that it will never out of the Flash. 'Tis also because when Children miscarry, the Mother is ordinarily most Sleighted by Them: 'Tis said, A Foolish man Des•i•eth his Mother; the Sinful Folly of the Young Wretches, makes them to trample more upon Her that •are them, than they dare to do upon Him that Begat them.
