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

These your Godly Parents, They Live in a continual Anguish, and, they Go Mourning all the Day Long, as long as they see you Going on in the Ways of your Ungodliness. When you were first Born unto your Parents, they fondly hoped concerning you, as in Gen 5. 29. This Child shall be a Comfort unto us! But alas, their Disappointed Souls, find that you are an Unspeakable Trouble unto them, while you continue in your Ungodliness; yea, you ⟨p. 45⟩bring them to that pass of the Psalmist, I am so Troubled, that I cannot speak! They Live in a Daily Fear concerning you; 'tis a Tormenting Fear, which you bring every Day upon them, Left you should be Sinning against the Lord, and Wronging of your own Souls; and Left you should Perish in your Unbelief. If you should be cut off in your Unregeneracy, They would not be able to bear the Anguish of their Souls about you, when they shall cry after you, like her, after her Lost Sons of old, Quo Pueri Estis profecti• or, Lord, what is become of them for Eternal Ages? Yea, and their Shame of you, is almost equal to their bear. As the Emperor Augustus called his Three Daughters, Tres Vomicas, Tria Carcinomata, three such Ulcers and Cancers on him, that he was Ashamed of them: Even so, they are Ashamed of having you seen, as they would be of Impost hums on their Bodies.

These your Godly Parents, They Live in a continual Anguish, and, they Go Mourning all the Day Long, as long as they see you Going on in the Wayes of your Ungodliness. When you were first Born unto your Parents, they fondly hoped concerning you, as in Gen 5. 29. This Child shall be a Comfort unto us! But alas, their Disappointed Souls, find that you are an Unspeakable Trouble unto them, while you continue in your Ungodliness; yea, you ⟨p. 45⟩bring them to that pass of the Psalmist, I am so Troubled, that I cannot speak! They Live in a Daily Fear concerning you; 'tis a Tormenting Fear, which you bring every Day upon them, Left you should be Sinning against the Lord, and Wronging of your own Souls; and Left you should Perish in your Unbelief. If you should be cut off in your Unregeracy, They would not be able to bear the Anguish of their Souls about you, when they shall cry after you, like her, after her Lost Sons of old, Quo Pueri Estis profecti• or, Lord, what is become of them for Eternal Ages? Yea, and their Shame of you, is almost equal to their bear. As the Emperour Augustus call'd his Three Daughters, Tres Vomicas, Tria Carcinomata, three such Ulcers and Cancers on him, that he was Ashamed of them: Even so, they are Ashamed of having you seen, as they would be of Impost hums on their Bodies.