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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.
when they were become, I know not how many millions, the flood swept away every mothers child of them. wherefore all the Children of men that are now in the world are styled the Children of Seth, Numb. 24. 17. [q]because as for Cain's Apostate Generation they all perished in the flood. When the old world did Apostatize, after the Reformation in the days of Seth, that second Apostasy proved fatal. If Churches in New-England degenerate, it is an Apostasy after Reformation. How fatal is such a relapse like to be? will not the end thereof be with a flood? And truly to be amongst the last Apostates, will be most woeful.
when they were become, I know not how many millions, the flood swept away every mothers child of them. wherefore all the Children of men that are now in the world are styled the Children of Seth, Numb. 24. 17. [q]because as for Cain's Apostate Generation they all perished in the flood. When the old world did Apostatize, after the Reformation in the dayes of Seth, that second Apostasy proved fatal. If Churches in New-England degenerate, it is an Apostasy after Reformation. How fatal is such a relapse like to be? will not the end thereof be with a flood? And truly to be amongst the last Apostates, will be most woful.
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Quest. But what shall be done in order to prevention of Apostasy? what shall be done, that so succeeding Generations in New-England may not forsake the Lord God of their Fathers?