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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
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.
In former Ages […] was the Seat of the Church, when as in these latter Ages Europe is so, [o]which is judged the Reason why the Book of Revelation speaks of Events to come to pass chiefly in Europe; because since the ten Kings arose there, hath the Lord Christ seen meet to uphold and propagate his Church. What shall be said more? It is evident that in the Apostles days, the mystery of iniquity began to work, much more after they fell asleep, Ebion and Cerinthus sprang up whilst the Apostle John was yet living. The very next Ages to the Apostles began to depart from, and corrupt the simplicity of the Gospel, in divers respects that might be mentioned, †one long since observed, that although the Church continued a Virgin until after the Apostles death, then it was soon corrupted. It is conceived that Jude lived after most of the other Apostles were dead, which is judged to be the reason of his expressing himself as he doth in ver. 17. of his Epistle. Now he complaineth much of a great degeneracy amongst those that professed Christianity.
In former Ages 〈…〉 was the Seat of the Church, when as in these latter Ages Europe is so, [o]which is judged the Reason why the Book of Revelation speaks of Events to come to pass chiefly in Europe; because since the ten Kings arose there, hath the Lord Christ seen meet to uphold and propagate his Church. What shall be said more? It is evident that in the Apostles dayes, the mystery of iniquity began to work, much more after they fell asleep, Ebion and Cerinthus sprang up whilst the Apostle John was yet living. The very next Ages to the Apostles began to depart from, and corrupt the simplicity of the Gospel, in divers respects that might be mentioned, †one long since observed, that although the Church continued a Virgin until after the Apostles death, then it was soon corrupted. It is conceived that Iude lived after most of the other Apostles were dead, which is judged to be the reason of his expressing himself as he doth in ver. 17. of his Epistle. Now he complaineth much of a great degeneracy amongst those that profossed Christianity.