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

But this is not all; I must further, and sadly tell you, You are in a fair way to be the Death of your poor Parents, if you will yet give your selves up, unto the Frenzies of Ungodliness: I tell you, You'll make Them to Die before ⟨p. 46⟩their Time: and what are you then, but Wicked Overmuch. Unworthy Creatures; How can you find in your Hearts to shorten the Lives of those, through whom you your selves have Derived your Lives? You do this, when you Chafe, and Cut, and Wast the Hearts of your Parents, by the Heart breaking Sight, of your Ungodliness, and make them even Weary of their Lives? I Remember, that the Apostle Paul, reckoning up the Transgressors of the Ten Commandments, the Transgressors of the Fourth Commandment, he calls, The Profane; but the Transgressors of the Fifth Commandment, he calls, in 1 Tim. 1. 9. Murderers of Fathers, and Murderers of Mothers. It seems, by breaking of the Fifth Commandment, you will break the Sixth also; yea, by being Undutiful Children, you will become the worst sort of Murderers. These Aggrieved Parents of yours, would with all their Hearts Lay down their own Lives immediately, if That would Effectually Recover you, out of all Ungodliness. As when David had an Ungodly Son, he Sighed, in 2 Sam. 18. 33 O my Son, my Son; I would to God, I had dyed for thee, my Son, my Son: Even so, your Parents ⟨p. 47⟩are Sighing in your Ears, My Child, I had rather my self Die to Night, than that thy Ungodly Soul should go where the Soul of Absalom is Lodged for ever; my Child! my Child! And is this the Return, that you make unto Them, ye Ungrateful Wretches; To Tire them out of their Lives, by your being Incurable in your Ungodliness. Methinks, I overhear your Parents with weeping Eyes, and bleeding Hearts thus calling upon you, O Unthankful Children, After all that we have born, and all that we have done, for you, will you kill us by your Obstinate Ungodliness; we cannot Live, if you go on in Rebellions against the God of Heaven: But will you thus Requite you Parents, ye Foolish Children, and Unwise! When the Murderers of Coesar were stabbing of him, he saw one among them that was very Near unto himself; whereupon with a mighty Passion he cried out, What? You, my Son! Have I a Son among you!