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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…
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II. It is Reported by Manlius, that a Poor, Needy, Crooked Old man, Addressed his Wealthy Son, for some Relief; but the Young and Proud Blade Chased his Father from him, as counting it a Dishonour to be Related unto one in such Abject Circumstances. The Aged Father went away, drowned in Tears: but the God of Heaven struck that Unnatural Son, with an Incurable Madness; in which he continued Raving until he Dyed.
II. It is Reported by Manlius, that a Poor, Needy, Crooked Old man, Addressed his Wealthy Son, for some Relief; but the Young and Proud Blade Chased his Father from him, as counting it a Dishonour to be Related unto one in such Abject Circumstances. The Aged Father went away, drown'd in Tears: but the God of Heaven struck that Unnatural Son, with an Incurable Madness; in which he continued Raving until he Dyed.
III. It is a Passage, which Dr. Beard, […] his, Theatre of Gods Judgments, has Reported, from the, Theatnum Historioe, That a perverse and wicked Son did once Beat his Old Father, and then Drag him unto the Threshold of the House, by the Hair of the Head. Afterwards, when he grew Old himself, (which was a […] Thing!) his own […] in like manner did Beat him; and Dragged him also by the Hair of the Head, out of Doors, into the Dist: whereas he […] I had been pulled ⟨image ?⟩only to the Threshold, I had been Rightly Served!
III. It is a Passage, which Dr. Beard, 〈…〉 his, Theatre of Gods Judgments, has Reported, from the, Theatnum Historioe, That a perverse and wicked Son did once Beat his Old Father, and then Drag him unto the Threshold of the House, by the Hair of the Head. Afterwards, when he grew Old himself, (which was a 〈…〉 Thing!) his own 〈…〉 in like manner did Beat him; and Dragged him also by the Hair of the Head, out of Doors, into the Dist: whereas he I had been pulled