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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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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 ⟨image ?⟩only to the Threshold, I had been Rightly Served!
III. Enguerus is our Author for it, that at Yuchi, an Ungodly Son; furiously Turned his Mother out of Doors, thrice in one Day, protesting, That he had as Lieu see his House on Fire, as to have her continue there. And behold! on that very Day, his House was Fired, none knew how; and, it, with all that was in it, immediately Consumed.
III. Enguerus is our Author for it, that at Yuchi, an Ungodly Son; furiously Turned his Mother out of Doors, thrice in one Day, protesting, That he had as Liev see his House on Fire, as to have her continue there. And behold! on that very Day, his House was Fired, none knew how; and, it, with all that was in it, immediately Consumed.