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

If neither of these Two Enquiries, do Discover any Transgression in you then put a Third Interrogatory, of this Importance: Whether, you have Thoroughly Repented of all your own Youthful Ungodliness, in any kind whatever. Your Hearts it may be, have never yet been ⟨p. 22⟩Endamed, unto a due degree of Revenge, against all your own Sins; and so God permits this New Occasion for it; Oh! thus is the Murderer that has killed my poor Child! Methinks, this may Enkindle in you a fresh Animosity against all Sins wherever you can discover it. When the Ungodly Absalom was afflicting of his Father, Then, as 'tis thought, the Old Man was awakened unto that Petition, in Psal. 25. 7. Remember not the Sins of my Youth, nor my Transgressions, O Lord. Many a Godly person, had need of a Renewed Repentance, for the Youthful Iniquity of his Heels, which by their Forgetfulness they have now, even Laid at their Heels. Now, their Children afterwards are Left unto the very Same Iniquities, that so They may, with suitable Recollections Repent of their own Iniquities, over and over again. And thus it is, especially, when Sins against the Seventh Commandment, have not been agreeably Repented of: Let him that hath Ear to hear, Hear what I say!

If neither of these Two Enquiries, do Discover any Transgression in you then put a Third Interrogatory, of this Importance: Whether, you have Thoroughly Repented of all your own Youthful Ungodliness, in any kind whatever. Your Hearts it may be, have never yet been ⟨p. 22⟩Endamed, unto a due degree of Revenge, against all your own Sins; and so God permits this New Occasion for it; Oh! thus is the Murderer that has kill'd my poor Child! Methinks, this may Enkindle in you a fresh Animosity against all Sins wherever you can discover it. When the Ungodly Absalom was afflicting of his Father, Then, as 'tis thought, the Old Man was awakened unto that Petition, in Psal. 25. 7. Remember not the Sins of my Youth, nor my Transgressions, O Lord. Many a Godly person, had need of a Renewed Repentance, for the Youthful Iniquity of his Heels, which by their Forgetfulness they have now, even Laid at their Heels. Now, their Children afterwards are Left unto the very Same Iniquities, that so They may, withsuitable Recollections Repent of their own Iniquities, over and over again. And thus it is, especially, when Sins against the Seventh Commandment, have not been agreeably Repented of: Let him that hath Ear to hear, Hear what I say!