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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.
What shall we do, that we may become Agreeable unto our Parents?
Do! Do This. In the first place, Become Religious; Repent of Sin, Believe on Christ, Give your selves up to God! Walk with the Wise: which is the Great Thing that your Parents have desired of you. And then, out of Duty to God, faithfully do your Duty to your, Parents; But know, that your GrandParents also are to be considered as your Parents, in your doing of this Duty. But what is the Duty? 'Tis This; Love your Parents heartily. You never can have but One Friend, which you are to Love above them, and for which you are to Leave them. What Joys Them, Let That Joy you: What Grieves Them, Let That Grieve You. Make them to see, that you Love to be with them. Count it an Intolerable Calamity, to Sleep under their Displeasure. And be not able to see any Evil befalling of them; No; Say with Judah, in Gen. ⟨p. 59⟩44. 34. How shall I see Evil come upon my Father! O Discover a […] Affection to them, that have always Expressed a Parental Affection to you.
Do! Do This. In the first place, Become Religious; Repent of Sin, Believe on Christ, Give your selves up to God! Walk with the Wise: which is the Great Thing that your Parents have desired of you. And then, out of Duty to God, faithfully do your Duty to your, Parents; But know, that your GrandParents also are to be considered as your Parents, in your doing of this Duty. But what is the Duty? 'Tis This; Love your Parents heartily. You never can have but One Friend, which you are to Love above them, and for which you are to Leave them. What Joyes Them, Let That Joy you: What Grieves Them, Let That Grieve You. Make them to see, that you Love to be with them. Count it an Intolerable Calamity, to Sleep under their Displeasure. And be not able to see any Evil befalling of them; No; Say with Judah, in Gen. ⟨p. 59⟩