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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.
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?
And there is this further to be said upon […] No Reasonable man will dare to Censure you, for the Affliction with which the Sovereign Hand of God, is thus Mortifying of you. Art thou an Afflicted Parent? Then, […] him that is Afflicted party will be […] Friend. They that Fear God, will not Judge the ⟨p. 17⟩worse of your State before Him, for the In which they see in your Children: They know that persons with Uncircumcised Hearts, are Born of such as had themselves Experienced a Circumcision of God upon their Souls.
And there is this further to be said upon 〈…〉 No Reasonable man will dare to Censure you, for the Affliction with which the Soveraign Hand of God, is thus Mortifying of you. Art thou an Afflicted Parent? Then, 〈…〉 him that is Afflicted party will be 〈…〉 Friend. They that Fear God, will not Judge the ⟨p. 17⟩worse of your State before Him, for the In which they see in your Children: They know that persons with Uncircumcised Hearts, are Born of such as had themselves Experienced a Circumcision of God upon their Souls.