Before I conclude, there is one rank of people, I most feelingly address myself unto, in order to prevent adultery, and that is, parents of every condition, being as such myself, most affectionately interested for the future race avoiding disgrace, and ignominy, as well as the present. My advice and recommendation to one and all, is to consider the weighty and important characters they support, and maintain it in dignity and being patterns of virtue themselves, and governing their children by good examples, rather than threatenings or punishment, for the truly affectionate and virtuous parents, God in his great mercy in all probability will grant obedient and affectionate children, as a recompence, that will honour them while on earth and reverence their name after their departure, remembering there is no advantage to speak evil of the dead especially he who hath walked uprightly, walketh surely, but he that perverteth the ways of the good shall be known. Two qualifications for the mind are incumbent on all parents, who are capable, which few are not, in these our enlightened and improved days, to learn their children, at least if not to learn them, to examine them frequently, and hear them when instructed, and particularly on the sabbath day, that is their prayers and the church catechism, which may appear to the giddy and inconsiderate an arduous and irksome task, yet to the truly pious and religious, must be laudable, and meet with approbation: this will be building their posterity on a rock which will not easily be moved, and when the vices of the age which have ruined, and I am afraid will continue to shorten the lives of many of their cotemporaries, they will stand fast, having prayed to God night and morning for his peculiar care and protection, wherefore Providence having carried them through the many casualties of infancy, and safely guided them against, and turned them aside from the perpetual dream and pressing torrent of unruly and raging passions swollen with intemperance and excess, at a maturer age he will crown them with virtue at the end. Children are not looked upon by many parents as the greatest of all blessings, and as a gift and heritage that cometh of the Lord, many treat them not as the first and principal object of man’s heart, remembering what our blessed Saviour saith, suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven, but train up a child in the way he shall go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it; this is of the highest moment to all parents, and let them remember, not to deserve the rebuke and chastisement of that all merciful and most affectionate father of the universe, who wishes not that the least of all these his little children should perish, but live, be happy, and be immortal.