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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.
Josiah was a Godly Parent; but, what was Jehojakim the Son?
Would you have an Example from the New-Testament, as well as the Old? That Blessed man, Rabbi Simeon, who was a most Reverend Confessor of the Lord Jesus Christ: had, if the Learned mistake not, a Son, R. Gamaliel, who was an Unbeliever. I'll Exemplify no further: Here's enough to let you see, That you are not Alone.
Would you have an Example from the New-Testament, as well as the Old? That Blessed man, Rabbi Simeon, who was a most Reverend Confessor of the Lord Jesus Christ: had, if the Learned mistake not, a Son, R. Gamaliel, who was an Unbeliever. I'le Exemplifie no further: Here's enough to let you see, That you are not Alone.
Now, the Result of all this, is thus much; You ought patiently to submit unto the Sovereign Will of God, in the Affliction that he has laid upon you. Art thou an Afflicted Parent? It is the Will of an Heavenly Father, that it should be so; and He therein deals no more Hardly with thee, than He hath sometimes dealt with His own dearest Children. 'Tis a Sour Cup that is given you; but say, The Cup that an Heavenly Father gives me, shall not I take it?
Now, the Result of all this, is thus much; You ought patiently to submit unto the Soveraign Will of God, in the Affliction that he has laid upon you. Art thou an Afflicted Parent? It is the Will of an Heavenly Father, that it should be so; and He therein deals no more Hardly with thee, than He hath sometimes dealt with His own dearest Children. 'Tis a Sour Cup that is given you; but say, The Cup that an Heavenly Father gives me, shall not I take it?