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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 if this will not make thee Relent. I am afraid, thou art not far from the Fate of them, who Being often Reproved, and harden their Necks: That is, To he Destroyed suddenly and without Remedy. It was a Remark upon the Sons of Eli, in 1 Sam. 2. 25. They hearkened not unto the voice of their Father, because the Lord would stay them. Children, I do solemnly Forewarn you of this Thing. If you don't Hearken unto your Parents, when they are advising of you, that you would not Afflict them, with Courses of Ungodliness, I am verily Afraid, That the Lord will Stay you, Ban you, Damn you, before you are aware. It was the Usage in Israel, to have that Anniversary Proclamation, from the Top of Mount Ebal, in Deut. 27. 16. Cursed be he that: sets Light by his Father, or his Mother And all the people shall say Amen. As it were from the Top of that Mount, I do here this day Loudly Proclaim this unto you, The Curse of God, will make a Quick Work with you, if you go on to Afflict your Fathers, or your Mothers, with your Ungodliness.
But if this will not make thee Relent. I am afraid, thou art not far from the Fate of them, who Being often Reproved, and harden their Necks: That is, To he Destroy'd suddenly and without Remedy. It was a Remark upon the Sons of Elt, in 1 Sam. 2. 25. They hearkened not unto the voice of their Father, because the Lord would stay them. Children, I do solemnly Forewarn you of this Thing. If you don't Hearken unto your Parents, when they are advising of you, that you would not Afflict them, with Courses of Ungodliness, I am verily Afraid, That the Lord will Stay you, Ban you, Damn you, before you are aware. It was the Usage in Israel, to have that Anniversary Proclamation, from the Top of Mount Ebal, in Deut. 27. 16. Cursed be he that: sets Light by his Father, or his Mother And all the people shall say Amen. As it were from the Top of that Mount, I do here this day Loudly Proclame this unto you, The Curse of God, will make a Quick Work with you, if you go on to Afflict your Fathers, or your Mothers, with your Ungodliness.