A family well-ordered. Or An essay to render parents and children happy in one…

Secondly▪ Undutiful Children for the Contempt they cast upon their Parents, are often Cursed by God, with a Mischief brought upon all their Affairs. A Strange Disaster uses to follow Undutiful Children, much Evil pursues that ⟨p. 46⟩kind of Sinners; there is a secret Vengeance of God, perplexing their Affairs; through' that Vengeance of God, None of their Affairs do prosper with them. When David was vexed with one of his Undutiful Children, he could foretell, in Psal. 55.19. God shall Afflict them. There is a Secret Blast of God, upon Undutiful Children. They are Afflicted in their Estates: It is the Curse of God upon them, for their being Loth▪ to do what they could for their Parents, with their Estates. They are Afflicted in their Bodies: It is the Curse of God upon them, for their Dishonouring the Parents of their Bodies. God Afflicts them with Reproaches: 'Tis the Curse of God upon them; They have Reproached or Despised their Parents. They are followed with one plague after another, by the Irresistible Wrath, and Curse of God: They can't comprehend, how they come to be so plagued in all their Interests: 'Tis it may be their Contempt of their Parents, that has, been the Worm at the Root, which causes all to wither with 'em. And if these Undutiful Children, ever Live to have Children of their own, God pays ⟨p. 47⟩'em home in their own C•in; God pays 'em in the Undutifulness of their own Children; In the Undutifulness of their own Children, God makes 'em, to possess the Iniquities of their Youth. Judah, cast Contempt upon his Parents, by Marrying a Canaanitess, as it should seem without their Consent: God Cursed this Judah with a couple of Children, who were such Wretches, that the Immediate Hand of Heaven, dispatched 'em out of the World. You have doubtless been informed of that famous History, in the Theatrum Historiae; A vile Son did once beat his old Father, and then Drag him to the Threshold of the House, by the Hair of the Head. Afterwards, when he grew Old himself, which by the way, was a Rare Thing!) his own Son did in like manner beat him, and then Drag him also, by the Hair of the Head, not only to the Threshold, but out of the Doors, into the Dirt. Hereupon he cried out with Anguish, Ah! If this Varlet had pulled me only to the Threshold, I had been served, but just as my Father was by me! Children, Remember this.