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

And unto this Caution, I would Importunately, add my Entreaty, That you would never suffer your Mouths, no, nor your Minds, to Curse your Children; for that will be the way, never to Cure them. Whatever Indignation may be Raised in You, by any Prevarication of Theirs, do not fly out into any In Wishes concerning them; Your Ill Wishes will after an unknown manner Commissionate the Angels of Death to Execute quick Plagues upon them, which, doubtless, you will afterwards be sorry for. The Imprecations of a Parent, make an incredible Entail of Mischiefs, on the Execrated Children: Mischiefs, which the Greatest Monarchs have sometimes been unable to Stand before. Even, an Idolatrous Micah, [Judg. 17. 23.] How solicitous was he, that the Direful Curses, of his passionate, and provoked Mother, might not overtake him! A Graceless Child once making a Wry Mouth at his Mother, She thereat Enraged, then Wished, Wretch, I hope thou wilt come to make that Mouth upon ⟨p. 27⟩the Gallows; and that very thing, in the most particular Circumstances of it, was quickly and sadly accomplished.

And unto this Caution, I would Importunately, add my Entreaty, That you would never suffer your Mouths, no, nor your Minds, to Curse your Children; for that will be the way, never to Cure them. Whatever Indignation may be Raised in You, by any Prevarication of Theirs, do not fly out into any In Wishes concerning them; Your Ill Wishes will after an unknown manner Commissionate the Angels of Death to Execute quick Plagues upon them, which, doubtless, you will afterwards be sorry for. The Imprecations of a Parent, make an incredible Entail of Mischiefs, on the Execrated Children: Mischiefs, which the Greatest Monarchs have sometimes been unable to Stand before. Even, an Idolatrous Micah, [Judg. 17. 23.] How sollicitous was he, that the Direful Curses, of his passionate, and provoked Mother, might not overtake him! A Graceless Child once making a Wry Mouth at his Mother, She thereat Enraged, then Wished, Wretch, I hope thou wilt come to make that Mouth upon ⟨p. 27⟩the Gallows; and that very thing, in the most particular Circumstances of it, was quickly and sadly accomplished.