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Help for distressed parents. Or, Counsels & comforts for godly parents afflicted with ungodly…
Help for distressed parents. Or, Counsels & comforts for godly parents afflicted with ungodly children; and warnings unto children to beware of all those evil courses, which would be afflictive unto their parents. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by John Allen for Vavasour Harris, 1695
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Help for Distressed Parents. Offered, at the LECTURE in Boston, 14.… › Case 1: The first CASE.
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.
Nevertheless, the Great Sovereign of ⟨p. 14⟩the World, that He may Show the Sovereignty of His Grace, as He sometimes will Convert the Children of a Wicked Parent, so He sometimes will Refuse the Children of a Godly One. God will make it Evident, that it is not in the power of One man, to give Grace unto another; yea, that it is not in the power of Parents which have Grace, to Convey That, as they do Sin, and Woe, unto their own Children; and hence, the Children of Godly Parents, do sometimes prove unlike unto themselves.
Nevertheless, the Great Soveraign of ⟨p. 14⟩the World, that He may Show the Soveraignty of His Grace, as He sometimes will Convert the Children of a Wicked Parent, so He sometimes will Refuse the Children of a Godly One. God will make it Evident, that it is not in the power of One man, to give Grace unto another; yea, that it is not in the power of Parents which have Grace, to Convey That, as they do Sin, and Woe, unto their own Children; and hence, the Children of Godly Parents, do sometimes prove unlike unto themselves.
Afflicted Parents! Will you hear the Names of some that have been your Fellow Sufferers?
The First Godly Parents in the World, were Adam and Eve, the First Parents of the World. Now, their first Child, and a Child in which they seem to have promised unto themselves a more than ordinary Satisfaction: he proved, as the Apostle calls him, A Child of the Devil: a most Bloody, Cursed, Unnatural Monster was he!
The First Godly Parents in the World, were Adam and Eve, the First Parents of the World. Now, their first Child, and a Child in which they seem to have promised unto themselves a more than ordinary Satisfaction: he prov'd, as the Apostle calls him, A Child of the Devil: a most Bloody, Cursed, Unnatural Monster was he!