Thus say the common people, that know
him, "A saint abroad and a devil at home." His poor family find it
so: he is such a churl, such a railer at, and so unreasonable with
his servants, that they neither know how to do for or speak to him.
Domestic iniquity stands also in the disorders of children and
servants. Children's unlawful carriage to their parents is a great
house-iniquity, yea, and a common one too. 2 Tim. 3:2, 3.
Disobedience to parents is one of the sins of the last days. O it is
horrible to behold how irreverently, how saucily, and malpertly,
children, yea, professing children, at this day carry it to their
parents; snapping and checking, curbing and rebuking them, as if
they had never received their being by them, or had never been
beholden to them for bringing them up; yea, as if the relation was
lost, or as if they had received a dispensation from God to dishonor
and disobey parents.
I will add, that this sin reigns in little and great; for not only
the small and young, but men are disobedient to their parents; and
indeed this is the sin with a shame, that men shall be "disobedient
to parents." Where nowadays shall we see children that are come to
men and women's estate, carry it as by the word they are bound, to
their aged and worn-out parents? I say, where is the honor they
should put upon them? Who speak to their aged parents with that due
regard to that relation, to their age, to their worn-out condition,
that becomes them? Is it not common nowadays for parents to be
brought into bondage and servitude by their children; for parents to
be under, and children above; for parents to be debased, and
children to lord it over them?
This sin is, I fear, grown to such a height in some, as to make them
weary of their parents, and of doing their duty to them.
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