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A fruitfull and usefull discourse touching the honour due from children wherein both the respective duties of children to parents and of parents to children are cleared from Scripture, together with what may either further or hinder the same ... / by Thomas Cobbet.
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Cobbet, Thomas, 1608-1685.
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many good instructions and other good means used with you but to no purpose that ever you were in so fair so near and ready a way to your eternall welfare had you not turned so far from it and now you must suffer the more anguish and torment by it The punishments of sense also will be heavier upon such degenerate ones as you are than upon others upon Children in whom is no faith Deut. 32. 20. God saith vers 23. He will heap mischiefs upon them and will spend all his Arrows upon them As that of Famine so called Ezek. 5. 16. That of the sword Jer. 50. That of pestilence Psal 91. 5. that of Sickness Psal 38. 2 3. That of thunder and lightning 2 Sam. 22. 14 15. That of inward horrour of his wrath Job 6. 4. Whence the sad conditions and ends of the degenerate Children of the Church of the Children of the godly they are so carefully recorded in Scripture in terrorem that others might hear and fear what a dreadfull condition befell wretched Cain that he was a Magor-missabib one that had terrour round about he thought every one that met him in his vagrand course would kill him Gen. 4. How fatall a deluge befell those degenerate Sons of God Sons of the Church Gen. 6. 2. with Chap. 7. and 8. What a wofull state was that of degenerate Cham that he and his posterity are condemned to vilest slavery to be servants of servants Gen. 9. What mischief befell many others of Noahs degenerate posterity at the building of the Tower of Babel how sad was Gods judgement upon degenerate Ishmael and Esau when they and theirs came to be excluded from the Church of Abraham Isaac and Jacob how deplorable were the ends of the degenerate Sons of Aaron Nadab and Abihu who were consumed by fire from heaven to what sad ends came that degenerate generation for the body of them in the wilderness some by fire from heaven Numb 11. 1 2 3. Some at Kibroth Hataavah where so many were struck dead whil'st eating their quails Numb 11. 33. Some swallowed up alive into the bowels of the earth opening it self for that end Numb 16. 31 32 33. Some by the plague and pestilence Vers 46 47 48 49. Numb 25. 9. Some by fiery serpents Numb 21. How sad were the stroaks of God upon the degenerate posterity in the times of the Judges as that whole Book sheweth not to mention the dreadfull ends of Hophni and Phineas 1 Sam. 4. and that of Absolom 2 Sam. 18. I might adde that remarkable hand of God upon degenerate Iehoram the Son of good Jehoshaphat who dyed of sore diseases his very bowels falling out 2 Chron. 21. 1. 19. compared You may see more of the sad ends of the degenerate Children of godly Josiah Jer. 22. Latter times even those in our dayes afford many terrible and notable examples of like nature but I forbear instances And if such severe judgements befall such in speciall here O how inexpressible are those hereafter which are your peculiar portion then to the Jew first even to the degenerate Jew above other sinners is Indignation and Wrath Tribulation and Anguish Rom. 2. 8 9. 5. That God will be farthest off from you in your saddest houres when you would have God 5. God will be farthest off from such in sad hours nearest to you when in sorest affliction as in the case of degenerate Saul 1 Sam. 28. 15. God no way answereth him then God departeth from him then so Deut. 31. 17 18. He threatens those degenerate ones that in the many troubles befalling them they shall from a Conscience awakened say Are not all these evils come upon us because God is not amongst us saith God I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they have done in turning away to other Gods 6. That notwithstanding all your privileges 6. They shall be looked at dealt with as if very Pagans yet by such degenerating you will come to be looked at and proceeded against by God as if but Pagans or worse as if a very Vipers brood as if Children of Ammonites or Hittites rather than of godly Ancestors as if Children of the Sorceresse Harlot Church than of the true Church Amos 9. 7. Are ye not Children of Aethiopians unto me O Children of Israel saith the Lord to degenerate Israelites Isa 57. 3. Draw near hither ye sons of the Sorceresse and of the Whore saith God to such like Matth. 3. 7. Ye generation of Vipers saith John to such like 7. In a word Consider how in such an estate you will ever dare to look even your good Ancestours 7. Even their godly Parents Ancestours will one day gladly joyn with Jesus Christ in sentencing them to eternall damnation in the face at the day of Judgement as sometimes dying worthy Bolton spake to like purpose to his Children or how can such degenerate Children of godly Parents as you are ever look for favour or pitty from your own Parents another day and not rather upbraiding with what you have already injoyed and not rightly improved as Abraham is brought in in the Parable Luke 16. upbraiding his son Dives with his former good things verse 26. Son said Abraham Remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things Dives can have no pitty nor favour from him in his torment no as it is said Psal 58. 10. The Righteous shall rejoyce especially at the day of Judgement when he seeth the vengeance be it upon Son or Daughter he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked as that good Woman as I have heard who had a very degenerate Son for whom she had oft prayed and wept before God for many years together and he rather grew worse than better and God at one time in prayer having quieted her heart in himself if it should be his pleasure even to damn him she one day called in her Son and with sighes and teares told him how dear a Son he had been to her how many meanes she had used time after time both with him and with God to bring him home to the Lord but now saith she I am content to leave thee to the Lords pleasure although he should damn thee wherefore take thy course now I have done if thou wilt needs go on in thy sin upon thy perill be it a day will come when I that have wept so oft to thee and over thee shall yet rejoyce in the sentence of thy just damnation which very speech of hers as I was credibly informed wrought much upon the young mans heart and from that day forward he proved really hopefull in the best things O that the very forementioning of this might have some such blessed effect upon some degenerate Child or other but verily the Saints being to be assessours with Christ at the last day in which respect it s said 1 Cor 6. 2 3. that the Saints shall