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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 2: The Second 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.
But there is this further to Encourage you, if you have Godly Parents: The Children of such Parents are under Advantages for the Fear of God, above any in the World. With what Encouraged Souls, does a Jacob say, The God of my Father has been with me! And a Moses, The God of my Father was my Help! And a David, O Lord, I am the Son of thy Handmaid. Oh, the many Prayers, Oh, the many Patterns, whereby your Parents, are hearing of you to Do well! And there are peculiar Promises ⟨p. 52⟩which you have to Lay hold upon: What say you, to that Promise, in Psal. 112. 2. The Generation of the Upright shall be Blessed! Or that Promise, in Psal. 102. 28. The Children of thy Servants shall continue, and their Seed shall be Established for ever! You are, The Children of the Covenant; and you know how urgently the Apostle pressed the Jews unto Well doing, from that very Argument. But wilt thou Despise this Privilege; and wilt thou Go on still in thy Ungodliness? Thou Profane Esau, Thou shalt one Day, Rue this Madness, with Tears of Blood! For;
But there is this further to Encourage you, if you have Godly Parents: The Children of such Parents are under Advantages for the Fear of God, above any in the World. With what Encouraged Souls, does a Jacob say, The God of my Father has been with me! And a Moses, The God of my Father was my Help! And a David, O Lord, I am the Son of thy Handmaid. Oh, the many Prayers, Oh, the many Patterns, whereby your Parents, are hearing of you to Do well! And there are peculiar Promises ⟨p. 52⟩which you have to Lay hold upon: What say you, to that Promise, in Psal. 112. 2. The Generation of the Upright shall be Blessed! Or that Promise, in Psal. 102. 28. The Children of thy Servants shall continue, and their Seed shall be Established for ever! You are, The Children of the Covenant; and you know how urgently the Apostle pressed the Jews unto Well doing, from that very Argument. But wilt thou Despise this Priviledge; and wilt thou Go on still in thy Ungodliness? Thou Profane Esau, Thou shalt one Day, Rue this Madness, with Tears of Blood! For;