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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.
Appendix: An Appendix Reporting some Remarkable Judgments of Heaven, upon Disobedient and Undutif…
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.
An Appendix Reporting some Remarkable Judgments of Heaven, upon Disobedient and Undutiful Children. From Undoubted Histories.
1. What a Lamentable Fate overtook the Rebellious Absalom, is well known unto all of us, that have the Happiness to be acquainted with the Sacred Oracles of the Scripture. Travellers Report That in the place where Absalom was Bu•ed, there is now a vast Heap of Stones, thus produced: It is Customary, for them that go by the place, to Throw a Stone upon it using these words, THUS IT SHALL BE DONE, UNTO THE SON, THAT REBELLETH AGAINST HIS FATHER.
1. WHat a Lamentable Fate overtook the Rebellious Absolom, is well known unto all of us, that have the Happiness to be acquainted with the Sacred Oracles of the Scripture. Travellers Report That in the place where Absolom was Bu•ed, there is now a vast Heap of Stones, thus produced: It is Customary, for them that go by the place, to Throw a Stone upon it using these words, THUS IT SHALL BE DONE, UNTO THE SON, THAT REBELLETH AGAINST HIS FATHER.
And what long since befell the Sons of […] hath befallen many […] in Later Ages, no Less than […] whom the Trust of […] of their ⟨image ?⟩Parents, the Chronicles of Kingdoms have so Largely Related, as to Supersede any Collection thereof.
And what long since befel the Sons of 〈…〉 hath befallen many 〈…〉 in Later Ages, no Less than whom the Trust of of their