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 FILIAL AFFECTION.

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T may truly be said, that if perſons are undutiful to their parents, they ſeldom prove good to any other relation.

The honour which children are required to give to their father and mother, includes in it love, reverence, obedience, and relief. It is uſual with Providence to retaliate men's diſobedience to their parents in kind: commonly our own children ſhall pay us home for it.

Where ſhall we find the perſon who hath received from any one benefits ſo great, or ſo many, as children from their parents? To them it is they owe their very exiſtence, and conſequently all the pleaſures and enjoyments of life.

No one will expect a return of kindneſs. however conſiderable, from him who can ſhow himſelf unmindful of what he oweth his parents.