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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.
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!
Come to Our World: The best man in our New-World, […]; a Righteous and a Perfect Man in […] Generations. Yet this Godly Parent, this famous preacher, who had but Three Sons, had a wicked ⟨p. 15⟩Ham among them. Was there not an Ishmael among the Sons of Abraham? There may be Vipers among those who say, We have Abraham for our Father.
Come to Our World: The best man in our New-World, 〈…〉; a Righteous and a Perfect Man in 〈…〉 Generations. Yet this Godly Parent, this famous •reacher, who had but Three Sons, had a wicked ⟨p. 15⟩Cham among them. Was there not an Ishmael among the Sons of Abraham? There may be Vipers among those who say, We have Abraham for our Father.
Isaac, was a most Godly Parent, of no more than Two Sons; and about One of them, though 'tis said, His Father Loved him, yet it is also said, The Lord Hated him.