7. Duty, to pray for their Parents.
Seventhly, Because all that Children can do is not sufficient to requite the love and tender care of their Parents; therefore they ought to pray to God, that he would reward them, and preserve
The true interest of families, or, Directions how parents may be happy in their children, and children in their parents to which is annexed a discourse about the right way of improving our time / by a divine of the Church of England ; with a preface by A. Horneck.
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- The true interest of families, or, Directions how parents may be happy in their children, and children in their parents to which is annexed a discourse about the right way of improving our time / by a divine of the Church of England ; with a preface by A. Horneck.
- Author
- Kirkwood, James, 1650?-1708.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for J. Taylor, and J. Everingham,
- 1692.
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- Subject terms
- Family -- Great Britain.
- Family -- Religious life.
- Parent and child -- Early works to 1800.
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them, and keep them alive; that he would supply all their wants, and com∣fort them in all their troubles, and requite their Love, their tender care, and their great cost and pains they have been at to bring them up, and to edu∣cate them. How happy are the Parents of such Children, who are supplicants and intercessors, at the Throne of Grace, for good things unto them? Such Children are the strength of their Parents; they are a great blessing un∣to them.
If it be the Duty of Chil∣dren, thus to pray to God, in behalf of their Parents, what shall we say of those, who neither pray for them, nor them∣selves, but live like the Beasts that pe∣rish, and mind nothing that's good? And if their Crime is great, who do not at all pray for their Parents; how dreadful is their Guilt, who Curse them? What dreadful Judgments may such Monsters of wickedness expect. Prov. 20.20. Who so Curseth his Father or his Mother, his Lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness; that is, he shall be reduced unto a sad afflicted and mise∣rable State; his prosperous condition
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(which is compared to Light, or to a Lamp) shall be turned into Adversity and Misery, and that very great, which is expressed by [obscure darkness] he shall be made very miserable; his state and condition in the World shall be∣come most uncomfortable; as it is for a Man who walketh in a way that is full of Light, where he beholds a great many Objects, which afford him plea∣sure and delight, suddenly to be de∣prived of all this, and to find himself all alone in obscure darkness, without all help and comfort. By the Law of Moses, such ungodly and unnatural Chil∣dren were without any pardon to be put to death. Exod. 21.17. He that Curseth his Father or his Mother, shall surely be put to death.
From what hath been said, Children may see what their Duty is, which they owe to their Parents; which that they may perform, there are several things which serve as powerful Motives and Arguments to excite them.
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Against Cur∣sers of Pa∣rents.