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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.
I would not lessen the grace of God, I know that through grace many of the younger Generation are brought home to God in Jesus Christ, yet in many (I doubt in most) Congregations, the number of sincere ⟨p. 65⟩converts is but small, comparatively with those that remain still in a natural & unconverted Estate. And as for some that have the Root of the matter in them, yet they fall much short of their Fathers grace, Solomon was a good man and his Soul is now in Heaven, yet he was not like David his Father as to measure of grace and faithfulness, 1 King. 11. 6. we may see here and there, one that hath much of his blessed Fathers Spirit and Principles, but how rare are such amongst us? Nay, the Interest of New-England is now changed, from a Religious to a worldly Interest; and in this thing is the great Radical Apostasy of New-England. Is not this to choose a strange God? Hence do we see war in the gates. And the Lord hath been letting this Generation blood in the right vein, since be hath taken the world away from them. Trade is almost ruined. Farms, Oxen, Merchandise, which things have been sought after in the first place, how have they failed? New-England is not like this twenty years, to be in that comfortable Estate it was in but two years ago.
I would not lessen the grace of God, I know that through grace many of the younger Generation are brought home to God in Jesus Christ, yet in many (I donbt in most) Congregations, the number of sincere ⟨p. 65⟩converts is but smal, comparatively with those that remain still in a natural & unconverted Estate. And as for some that have the Root of the matter in them, yet they fall much short of their Fathers grace, Solomon was a good man and his Soul is now in Heaven, yet he was not like David his Father as to measure of grace and faithfulness, 1 King. 11. 6. we may see here and there, one that hath much of his blessed Fathers Spirit and Principles, but how rare are such amongst us? Nay, the Interest of New-England is now changed, from a Religious to a worldly Interest; and in this thing is the great Radical Apostasy of New-England. Is not this to chuse a strange God? Hence do we see warr in the gates. And the Lord hath been letting this Generation blood in the right vein, since be hath taken the world away from them. Trade is almost ruined. Farmes, Oxen, Merchandise, which things have been sought after in the first place, how have they failed? New-England is not like this twenty years, to be in that comfortable Estate it was in but two years agoe.