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Pray for the rising generation, or A sermon wherein godly parents are encouraged, to…
Pray for the rising generation, or A sermon wherein godly parents are encouraged, to pray and believe for their children, preached the third day of the fifth month, 1678. which day was set apart by the Second Church in Boston in New-England, humbly to seek unto God by fasting and prayer, for a spirit of converting grace, to be poured out upon the children and rising generation in New-England. / By Increase Mather, teacher of that church. ; [Seven lines of quotations]
printed by Samuel Green, 1678
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Moreover, the consideration of what Parents the children of this Land are (many of them) sprung from, doth afford matter of encouragement Pau• was induced the rather to hope well concerning Timothy, because he was descended of such a stock, he had a gracious Mother, and a gracious Grandmother also, 2 Tim. 1.5. So many Children with us are the Off spring of such Parents, (Fathers and Grand-fathers) as have been eminent for God in their time, eminent for holiness, yea and for sufferings, on the account of bea•ing witness •o the Name and Truth of Christ Now a special •l•ssing is wont to follow the Children of such as have been sufferers for Christ▪ ⟨p. 18⟩Our Fathers were some of them eminent Confessors, and in a Degree, Martyrs of Jesus, who left a pleasant Land, and Fathers houses to follow the Lord into a wilderness, into a Land which was not sown. Yea and they came hither partly with respect unto their Off spring, that they might leave their Children under the special blessing of God in Christ Jesus. Hath not the Lord peculiar blessings in store for such Children▪ let us pray them down from Heaven above.
Moreover, the consideration of what Parents the children of this Land are (many of them) sprung from, doth afford matter of encou•agement Pau• was induced the rather to hope well concerning Timothy, because he was descended of such a stock, he had a gracious Mother, and a g•acious Grandmother also, 2 Tim. 1.5. So many Children with us are the Off spring of such Parents, (Fathers and Grand-fathers) as have been eminent for God in their time, eminent for holiness, yea and for sufferings, on the accoun• of bea•ing witness o the Name and Truth of Christ Now a special lssing is wont to follow the Children of such as have been suerers for Crist