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A call from heaven to the present and succeeding generations or A discourse wherein…A call from heaven to the present and succeeding generations or A discourse wherin…
A call from heaven to the present and succeeding generations or A discourse wherein is showed, I. That the children of godly parents are under special advantages and encouragements to seek the Lord. : II. The exceeding danger of apostasy, especially as to those that are the children and posterity of such as have been eminent for God in their generation. : III. That young men ought to remember God their creator. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Nine lines of quotations]A call from heaven to the present and succeeding generations or A discourse wherin is shewed, I. That the children of godly parents are under special advantages and encouragements to seek the Lord. : II. The exceeding danger of apostasie, especially as to those that are the children and posterity of such as have been eminent for God in their generation. : III. That young men ought to remember God their creator. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Nine lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1679
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2. When men deify any other Object besides the Lord; They that set up other things in Gods stead, in their so doing forsake the Lord, so it is when men give religious worship to any other besides him, who alone ought to be feared, Thus the Children of Israel because they did worship Baal and Ashtaroth, h. e. the [b]Sun and Moon, (for those were the first Creatures that the Gentiles Idolized, and the Syrians called the Sun, Baal; and the Moon Ashtaroth) they are therefore charged with forsaking God, Judg. […]. •, 13. Idolatry is the greatest Apostasy in the world. Such are by way of eminency styled forsakers of God, Deut. 32. 15. He forsook God, meaning that they did Apostatize to Idolatry, therefore in ver. 16. it is added that they provoked him to Jealous•• with their strange Gods, that is to say, with new Gods or Idols, for new things are strange, ver. 17. They sacrificed to new Gods which came newly up, whom their Fathers feared not. And this is true not only with respect unto that more gross Idolatry, when men shall avow the Service of Idols, but also concerning secret, spiritual, heart Idolatry, even ⟨image ?⟩worldliness, Math 6. 24. Ye cannot serve both God and Mammon. The Servants of Mammon, h. e. of the world, are forsakers of God, when men pour out the strength of their affections upon worldly Objects, or place their chief delight and confidence in these things, it argueth an heart departure from the Lord, Jer. 17. 5. If Fathers have sought Christ, and the things of Christ in the first place, and their Children shall come after them, and espouse a worldly Interest, it is a woeful God-forsaking.
2. When men deify any other Object besides the Lord; They that set up other things in Gods stead, in their so doing forsake the Lord, so it is when men give religious worship to any other besides him, who alone ought to be feared, Thus the Children of Israel because they did worship Baal and Ashtaroth, h. e. the [b]