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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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nevertheless, he useth means to reduce and recover a backsliding People, before he casts them off, so he did with the Asian Churches, and so hath he done with the Anti-Christian Generation, and therefore raised up great Instruments, who have preached the Everlasting Gospel with a loud voice, and called for Reformation; and might therefore say [f]as Jer. 51. 9. We would have healed Babylon, and she is not ⟨p. 51⟩healed, therefore her Judgement reacheth unto Heaven' and is lifted up even to the Skies. The Lord doth give a first and second admonition before he doth reject; He trieth what his Word will do, what lesser and greater Judgements will do, yea; and what mercies and deliverances will do, and if nothing will prevail, then he casts off for-ever. If a Generation be Apostate, and Incorrigibly Apostate, it will not belong before God doth cast them off for-ever, Jer. 15. 6, 7. Thou hast forsaken me saith the Lord, thou […] gone backward, therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, I will destroy my People sith they return not from their ways. In a word, when Apostasy is total and final then the Lord doth reject men, yea, though the Children and Posterity of his own Servants, he casts them off for-ever.
nevertheless, he useth means to reduce and recover a backsliding People, before he casts them off, so he did with the Asian Churches, and so hath he done with the Anti-Christian Generation, and therefore raised up great Instruments, who have preached the Everlasting Gospel with a loud voice, and called for Reformation; and might therefore say [f]as Jer. 51. 9. We would have healed Babylon, and she is not ⟨p. 51⟩healed, therefore her Judgement reacheth unto Heaven' and is lifted up even to the Skies. The Lord doth give a first and second admonition before he doth reject; He tryeth what his Word will do, what lesser and greater Judgements will do, yea; and what mercies and deliverances will do, and if nothing will prevail, then he casts off for-ever. If a Generation be Apostate, and Incorrigibly Apostate, it will not belong before God doth cast them off for-ever,