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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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3. Oh! that our occasional Meetings might be improved for the good of this, and after Generations. Because of the capacity and holy Relation we stand in before the Lord, it is expected we should not be like other men, they may meet together, and spend that time in discourses of their own personal concerns; but we have the care and charge of Souls committed to us. Yea (in our measure) the care of all the Churches ought to be upon us: nay, more, we must be solicitous for those that shall come after us. Such a public spirit well becometh our public capacity, & therefore upon all occasions to speak and act accordingly. And verily, the Lord will write down these discourses in his book of Remembrance, and we ⟨p. 88⟩shall be glad to hear of them again at that day▪ we must every one of us, (Ministers as well as People) appear in a greater Congregation than this, and then we shall not be sorry, that we have laid our selves out for God & for his People; yea, the more we have done for Christ, and for the Generation wherein we live, the greater will our glory be, when we shall hear the Lord Jesus saying, Well done thou faithful Servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. If the Lord help us to approve our selves faithful unto the Death, when he the chief Shepherd shall appear, he will give unto us a Crown of Glory which fadeth not away.
3. Oh! that our occasional Meetings might be improved for the good of this, and after Generations. Because of the capacity and holy Relation we stand in before the Lord, it is expected we should not be like other men, they may meet together, and spend that time in discourses of their own personal concerns; but we have the care and charge of Souls committed to us. Yea (in our measure) the care of all the Churches ought to be upon us: nay, more, we must be sollicitous for those that shall come after us. Such a publick spirit well becometh our publick capacity, & therefore upon all occasions to speak and act accordingly. And verily, the Lord will write down these discourses in his book of Remembrance, and we ⟨p. 88⟩shall be glad to hear of them again at that day▪ we must every one of us, (Ministers as well as People) appear in a greater Congregetion than this, and then we shall not be sorry, that we have laid our selves out for God & for his People; yea, the more we have done for Christ, and for the Generation wherein we live, the greater will our glory be, when we shall hear the Lord Jesus saying, Well done thou faithfull Servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. If the Lord help us to approve our selves faithfull unto the Death, when he the chief Shepherd shall appear, he will give unto us a Crown of Glory which fadeth not away.