• bctte r youngfolkes Id bee pinchcd,-then their old pa• rents want any thing. · · · ·: _, . · P(t. This ferues for a moll l11arpe reproofe ofthe vnnaturall V~narur.1Il difpofition ofmany vngratious children that fo long as the children h h' · d r ' · reprGucd; parents aue any t mg ~o gtue,an. 10medung f!lay be got.. tenby the~,_all tha~ ':h1le they WI~i be fo kincl & fo louing, . aud there 1s fuch flnmng and catchwg, tnat .vvell is hec that can get tbe old parent tohim :but when once he is drawne drie,and theyhaue fu~ktall frot~ him, then he is negl eCt-ed ofall, then eueryday IS ayeere u.ll hee_bedead; then he is a · burthen and adogge, then they exclaimc, ·.that he dorh no- ·.., thing but fpend,a~1d ububles the familie. Such crue.ll & bit: ... ~;; · ter word~ are heard ·ofr-times fi·olll the rnouthes cifwick-ed and vnnaturall children. This is agrieuous difhonor, Not to · relieue the weake, ~iHreffed and helpldfe parents. AsS:hrifl faith,Marh. I 5.6.Thofe that forbeare relieuing their partnts, though theypretend tobeHow the!r liberalitie for the vfe of theChurch,ye(they dtfhonour the1r parents. A fccond dutie ofthankfulncs is to pray for their parents. A5 t.Tim.z.he ·commands that prayer bemade for aU in au– thoritie. And ifwee mu!l pray for thofe that be further otfin the Common-weale; much mG>re for thofe that be neerer in the familie. Therefore,this is agreat fault in many,aad to be greatly condemned, that can fee their fathers faults, and fpeake ofthenl too much; but cantieuer fin de time to fall downe before God, and befeech him to heale their nature, and helpe them out of their finn~s. Many haue liued a long time with their parents,yet cannot fay that euerthcy fent vp an hcartie prayer tohcauen for them: fo vnkinde and vn~ thaokfull be they. · - i;ft 1 • Thevfeofall thefe duties to thofe whofe parents are not Datiesof aliue, is, to looke=- that their finnes bee not aliue after their childGen parents death. i\nd therefore they muA examine them• :~~s~:- fdues ,whether they haue bin faultie in any ofthefe things: dead. And ifthey haue oflended therein, let them repent for ir, and crauc pardon,elfe they bee llable to tWo plagues. The firAis, that their children l11ould take their parents quarrell in hand, and requite their wicked dealing, in what euer dutie
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