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

I add, Requite your Parents Gratefully. You owe them all that you are, all that you have; you'll never come out of their Debt. Pray for them every Day distinctly, zealously, as for your own Souls. Do for them every thing that you can; and let not the Stork among ⟨p. 60⟩the Birds of Heaven, be a witness against you. Are they fallen into any Decays? Oh! Take a wondrous Delight in Relieving of them, unto the utmost of your Ability. To see an Aged Father, or an Aged Mother, nourished in thy House, 'twill be the Glory of that House: and God will Bless that House of thine, as He did the House of Obed Edom. The very Pagans have sometimes called These, Their Household Gods. A Mine of Gold found in thy Ground, would not Enrich thee so much, as for thee to send thy crazy Dam, such a Message as that, of Joseph, Thus saith thy Son, Come down to me, Tarry not; Thou shalt be Near to me. 'Tis the Evangelical Injunction, in 1 Tim. 5. 4. Let them Learn, with Piety at home, to Requite their Parents, for that is Good and Acceptable towards God. Thus, Dr. Taylor the Martyr, going to Suffer, said unto his Son, When thy Mother is waxen Old, Forsake her not, but provide for her to thy power, and see that she Lack nothing; so will God Bless thee, and give thee Long Life and Prosperity.

I add, Requite your Parents Gratefully. You owe them all that you are, all that you have; you'l never come out of their Debt. Pray for them every Day distinctly, zealously, as for your own Souls. Do for them every thing that you can; and let not the Stork among ⟨p. 60⟩the Birds of Heaven, be a witness against you. Are they fallen into any Decayes? Oh! Take a wondrous Delight in Relieving of them, unto the utmost of your Ability. To see an Aged Father, or an Aged Mother, nourished in thy House, 'twill be the Glory of that House: and God will Bless that House of thine, as He did the House of Obed Edom. The very Pagans have sometimes called These, Their Houshold Gods. A Mine of Gold found in thy Ground, would not Enrich thee so much, as for thee to send thy crazy Dam, such a Message as that, of Joseph, Thus saith thy Son, Come down to me, Tarry not; Thou shalt be Near to me. 'Tis the Evangelical Injunction, in 1 Tim. 5. 4