Help for distressed parents. Or, Counsels & comforts for godly parents afflicted with ungodly…

First, Have not you formerly Grieved the Hearts of your own Parents? It may be, 'tis for Thus, that your Children are now Grieving of yours. When the Children of Jacob were in Distress, they could call to mind their Faulty Carriage towards their Aged Parent, above Twenty Years ago, and now they cried in Gen. 42. 21. We are verily Guilty ⟨p. 19⟩concerning That, and therefore is this Distress come upon us. There is no Sin, so sure of Recompense in this Life, as that of, […] Grieving the Heart of a Parent. Yea, it is a Sin, that rarely, if ever, misses of an Exemplary Retaliation here. It was an Impudent Speech, but a True and a Sad One, uttered by a Young Varlet, who when his Father said, Never any man had such a Wicked Son; replied, Yes, my Grand father had. I beseech you, to call your selves unto an Account, Whether the Grand-Parents of the Children, that make you uneasy were not once as uneasy, upon your Account? Many a Father that is Heart broken by the Misdemeanours of his Children, may acknowledge with him, in Job 13. 26. Thou writest Bitter Things against me, & makest me to possess the Iniquities of my Youth. A just God, thus reminds him of his Old Iniquities, whereby the Heart of his Father before him was disturbed. The Sons of Jacob wretchedly abused him, with the Garments of their Absent Brother: But, I pray Sir, Did not you, a great while ago, Serve your Father Isaac so? Or,

First, Have not you formerly Grieved the Hearts of your own Parents? It may be, 'tis for Thus, that your Children are now Grieving of yours. When the Children of Jacob were in Distress, they could call to mind their Faulty Carriage towards their Aged Parent, above Twenty Years ago, and now they cry'd in Gen. 42. 21. We are verily Guilty ⟨p. 19⟩concerning That, and therefore is this Distress come upon us. There is no Sin, so sure of Recompence in this Life, as that of, 〈…〉 Grieving the Heart of a Parent. Yea, it is a Sin, that rarely, if ever, misses of an Exemplary Retaliation here. It was an Impudent Speech, but a True and a Sad One, uttered by a Young Varlet, who when his Father said, Never any man had such a Wicked Son; reply'd, Yes, my Grand father had. I beseech you, to call your selves unto an Account, Whether the Grand-Parents of the Children, that make you uneasie were not once as uneasie, upon your Account? Many a Father that is Heart broken by the Misdemeanours of his Children, may acknowledge with him, in