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CASE VIII.
Superiours sufferings by bad Children, Ser∣vants, Tenants, or Subjects.
VIII. ANother Case, that needeth Pa∣tience, is the suffering of Su∣periors by bad Children and Servants, Tenants, Tradsmen, and others, whom they must use and trust. Of bad Children I have partly spoken before: Natural love maketh this one of the heaviest afflictions in the world: When Parents have been at all that suffering, care, labour, and cost, which go to the bringing of Children in∣to the world, and bringing them up from the breasts to maturity, and teaching them their duty to God and Man, and prepa∣ring them to be useful to themselves and others, that after all this they should prove bruitish fleshly Sots, that are slaves to their bellies, and wallow in the sink of filthy lust, and savour nothing but pride and fleshly pleasure, and the belief of Gods word hath no power to change them, yea perhaps prove haters of seri∣ous holiness, and enemies of Good men, and plagues to their Country, and fight against the only means of their