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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.
Consider, Thirdly, What a Fiery Vengeance is pursuing of you, as Long as your Afflicted Parents, continue Afflicted with your Ungodliness. If the Grand-son of a Moses become an Idolater, he shall [as the Jews remark upon Judg. 18. 30.] be destroyed, as if a Manasseh had been his Father. Covenant breakers I find Ranked, and you shall find them Damned, among the worst of Sinners; but you that slight the Obligations laid upon you, by your Parents, Oh! you are among the worst of Covenant-breakers. Have you forgotten that Thunder of Heaven ⟨p. 53⟩in Psal. 9. 17. The Wicked shall be […] into Hell? Unto a Burning Hell are you Posting every Hour, ye Ungodly Children. But why so fast? I say, why so fast? Let me freely and fairly warn you, of This; The Godliness of your Parents, will not Save you, from the Everlasting Destruction, which the Presence of the Lord, shall bring upon them that Obey not the Gospel; Oh! Don't Think to say with your selves, we have Parents who Pray so much for us, that we shall do well enough, though we do nothing for our selves! For, I say unto you, that if you bear no Fruits of Godliness your selves, you shall Unavoidably be cast into the Unquenchable Fire. Yea, When you come to Lie and Broil in that horrible Fire of the Wrath of God, all the Godliness of your Parents, will be but Oil unto the Flame, in the Lowermost parts of the Hell reserved for you, and render the Reflections of your Consciences, the more Furious and Amazing, until the very Heavens be no more. Better thy Father had been an Indian or a Negro! We read of one, in Luk. 16. 23, 24. In Hell, be Lift up his Eyes, being in Torments; and he Cried, Father Abraham, have mercy on me; for I am Tormented in this ⟨p. 54⟩Name. Tormented indeed will They be, and None so Tormented as They, that in Hell shall call to mind, Oh! I am one that had an Abraham for my Father, and a Sarah for my Mother. My Believing Parents are Gone to Glory, and […] Child of the Kingdom am here in Outer Darkness, weeping and Wailing, and Gnashing of my Teeth for ever! It was said in Lev. 21. 9