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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. Let me humbly propose this Exhortation to those that are Ministers in the house of God. There are many such before the Lord in this great Assembly. My Fathers, and Brethren, the Generation that […] present, and that which is to come, will bless God for us, if we do our utmost to promote their welfare; We are many of us eminently the Children of the Prophets. The Prophets do they live for ever; and our Fathers where are they? they are now in Heaven beholding the glory of Jesus Christ; And the Lord Jesus who sometimes said to the Angels of the Churches, I know your works, speaketh to us saying, the great affairs of my Kingdom, which once were in the hands of your Fathers to manage, are now come into your hands, they were faithful to my Name, and did acquit themselves as became them, now let me see what you will do: Follow them as they followed Christ. Give me leave to mention two or three words, which if the Lord help us to remember them, we shall serve our Generation according to the will of God.
2. Let me humbly propose this Exhortation to those that are Ministers in the house of God. There are many such before the Lord in this great Assembly. My Fathers, and Brethren, the Generation that 〈…〉 present, and that which is to come, will bless God for us, if we do our utmost to promote their welfare; We are many of us eminently the Children of the Prophets. The Prophets do they live for ever; and our Fathers where are they? they are now in Heaven beholding the glory of Jesus Christ; And the Lord Jesus who sometimes said to the Angels of the Churches, I know your works, speaketh to us saying, the great affairs of my Kingdome, which once were in the hands of your Fathers to manage, are now come into your hands, they were faithful to my Name, and did acquit themselves as became them, now let me see what you will do: Follow them as they followed Christ. Give me leave to mention two or three words, which if the Lord help us to remember them, we shall serve our Generation according to the will of God.
1. Let us approve our selves faithful in what concerns the house of God. And therefore we ought to be careful,