Thirdly. Death; Yea, an Early Death, and a Woeful Death, is not seldom the Curse of God upon Undutiful Children, for their being so. It is the Tenor of the Precept, Honour thy Father and thy Mother, that thy Days may be long upon the Land. Mind it, Children; Your Days are not like to be long upon the Land, if you Set Light by your Father, or Mother. When Absalom, with his Crew, was manifesting a Bloody Undutifulness, his offended Father predicted thus much, That those bloody and crafty men, should not Live out half their Days. Why, he knew, that the very Finger of God, had once written as much as this comes to; That Children, which did not Honour their Parents, must not look to have the•• Days •ong in the Land. We have all heard the Fate of that Undutiful Absalom; now some Travellers Report, that in the place where Absalom was Buried, 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. Stand still, O my Children, ⟨p. 49⟩and Look with Horror upon the Grave of Absalom: Read there, and see the Curse of God upon the Undutiful. Children that cast Contempt on the Parents, who have been the Instruments of their Life, do thereby, what, but make Forfeitures of their Life? It becomes Children to reckon it one main Design, and Business, and privilege of their Life, to be Comforts unto their Parents: When they cease to do so, God with a direful Curse often gives that Order about them, Take away the Life of that Undutiful Creature! That Creature shall no longer Live in the World. It was an Edict of Heaven, in Exod. 21.17. He that curseth his Father or his Mother, shall surely be put unto Death. And what shall then be done unto the Children, that prove Curses unto their Father, or their Mother? Undutiful Children are so; But the Curse of God puts them to Death for it: And because those Undutiful Children are Wicked over much, therefore they Die before their Time. Yea, 'tis no unusual Thing for the Death of Undutiful Children, to be Embittered with some Extraordinary Circumstances of Confusion and Calamity. ⟨p. 50⟩I tell you, O Undutiful Children; There is Danger, Lest you be so Cursed of God, as to be Hanged on a Tree, at the Last.
Thirdly. Death; Yea, an Early Death, and a Woful Death, is not seldom the Curse of God upon Undutiful Children, for their being so. It is the Tenour of the Precept, Honour thy Father and thy Mother, that thy Dayes may be long upon the Land. Mind it, Children; Your Dayes are not like to be long upon the Land, if you Set Light by your Father, or Mother. When Absalom, with his Crue, was manifesting a Bloody Undutifulnes•, his offended Father praedicted thus much, That those bloody and crasty men, should not Live out half their Dayes. Why, he knew, that the very Finger of God, had once written as much as this comes to; That Children, which did not Honour their Parents, must not look to have the•• Dayes •ong in the Land. We have all heard the Fate of that Undutiful Absalom; now some Travellers Report, that in the place where Absalom was Buried, 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. Stand still, O my Children, ⟨p. 49⟩and Look with Horror upon the Grave of Absalom: Read there, and see the Curse of God upon the Undutiful. Children that cast Contempt on the Parents, who have been the Instruments of their Life, do thereby, what, but make Forfeitures of their Life? It becomes Children to reckon it one main Design, and Business, and priviledge of their Life, to be Comforts unto their Parents: When they cease to do so, God with a direful Curse often gives that Order about them, Take away the Life of that Undutiful Creature! That Creature shall no longer Live in the World. It was an Edict of Heaven, in Exod. 21.17. He that curseth his Father or his Mother, shall surely be put unto Death. And what shall then be done unto the Children, that prove Curses unto their Father, or their Mother? Undutiful Children are so; But the Curse of God puts them to Death for it: And because those Undutiful Children are Wicked over much, therefore they Dy before their Time. Yea, 'tis no unusual Thing for the Death of Undutiful Children, to be Embittered with some Ex•raordinary Circumstances of Confusion and Calamity. ⟨p. 50⟩I tell you, O Undutiful Children; There is Danger, Lest you be so Cursed of God, as to be Hanged on a Tree, at the Last.
