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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
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Appendix: An Appendix Reporting some Remarkable Judgments of Heaven, upon Disobedient and Undutif…
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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.
IV. Mr. Swinneck, recites a Narrative, of a Yeoman in Leicestershire, who made over his House and Land, unto an Unworthy Son, upon Marriage; Conditionally that his Son should keep him, during his Life. But afterwards, there fell out some Difference between them, on which this Viper of a Son, bad his Father, Get him out of Doors, and called him, A Bursten Belly Slave, (as indeed the Old man had a Rupture.) The very next Day, as the Young man was walking in his Grounds, Mr. Goodman, the Minister of the Parish, Riding by, asked him, How he did? He answered, Very well! But before the Minister was out of light, the Young mans Bowels ⟨image ?⟩Gushed out, and he miserably went home, carrying of them in his hands. He then sent for the Minister, owned the Justice of God upon him for his Undutifulness unto his Father, and made his Will, wherein he Bequeathed unto his Father much of what he had, and that Night he Dyed.
IV. Mr. Swinneck, recites a Narrative, of a Yeoman in Leicestershire, who made over his House and Land, unto an Unworthy Son, upon Marriage; Conditionally that his Son should keep him, during his Life. But afterwards, there fell out some Difference between them, on which this Viper of a Son, bad his Father, Get him out of Doors, and call'd him, A Bursten Belly Slave, (as indeed the Old man had a Rupture.) The very next Day, as the Young man was walking in his Grounds, Mr. Goodman, the Minister of the Parish, Riding by, ask'd him, How he did? He answered, Very well! But before the Minister was out of light, the Young mans Bowels