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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.
First, Admonish your Ungodly Children, of all the Evils, whereinto they are precipitating themselves by their Ungodliness. Do, as Abraham, and as David, would have done; Solemnly Charge your Children, To keep the Way of the Lord; Solemnly Charge your Children, To Serve the Lord with a Perfect Heart, and a Willing Mind. If there be any peculiar, Paths of the Destroyer, which your Children, are too prone unto, Frequently, Fervently, Faithfully Lay before them the Destruction, whereto those Ungodly Paths will carry them. And that you may give these Admonitions, the more Effectually, give them Scripturally; Single out the Scriptures, which do plainly condemn the• Vices, and causing them to Read those awful Scriptures then with all the Solemnity in the World, Charge them, That, as they […] it, before God, and before you another day ⟨p. 28⟩they Conform themselves accordingly. Me thinks I see that brave woman, calling her Son before her, in Prov. 31. 1. and saying, What, my Son! and what, the Son of my Womb! and what, the Son of my Vows? Wilt thou give thy Strength to Women? Wilt thou Drink and Forget the Law? Parents, Go, and bestow such Lively Admonitions, upon the Children that are, A Grief of Mind, unto you; and Let them see the Grief of Mind, with which you Dispense those Admonitions.
First, Admonish your Ungodly Children, of all the Evils, whereinto they are precipitating themselves by their Ungodliness. Do, as Abraham, and as David, would have done; Solemnly Charge your Children, To keep the Way of the Lord; Solemnly Charge your Children, To Serve the Lord with a Perfect Heart, and a Willing Mind. If there be any peculiar, Paths of the Destroyer, which your Children, are too prone unto, Frequently, Fervently, Faithfully Lay before them the Destruction, whereto those Ungodly Paths will carry them. And that you may give these Admonitions, the more Effectually, give them Scripturally; Single out the Scriptures, which do plainly condemn the• Vices, and causing them to Read those awful Scriptures then with all the Solemnitie in the World, Charge them, That, as they 〈…〉 it, before God, and before you another day ⟨p. 28⟩