"undutiful children's soon become horrid creatures, for unchastity, for dishonesty, for lying, and all manner of abominations: and the contempt which they cast upon the advice of their parents, is one thing that pulls down this curse of god upon them. they who sin against their parents, are sometimes by god given up to sin against all the world beside. mind the most scandalous instances of wickedness and villainy; you'll ordinarily find, they were first undutiful children, before they fell into the rest of their atrocious wickedness." the ton of this passage can best be described as a. threatening b. condescending c. flattering d. sorrowful