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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.
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.
II. Since you are Afflicted with Ungodly Children, you should set your selves to make a Right Use of your Affliction. Indeed there are Scorpions at the End of the Rods, when God makes Rods of Children, to Scourge the Parents with them; and now 'tis time to do that thing, whereto we are called, in Mic. 6. 9. Hear the Rod. Parents, The Use that you should make of your deplorable Affliction, is to be in a suitable Examination, Humiliation, and Reformation.
II. Since you are Afflicted with Ungodly Children, you should set your selves to make a Right Use of your Affliction. Indeed there are Scorpions at the End of the Rods, when God makes Rods of Children, to Scourge the Parents with them; and now 'tis time to do that thing, whereto we are called, in