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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.
If their Children are like to live well in the world, and their Families to be made richer, they look no further; a sad sign that Religion will expire, and such Families be cut off from the Covenant, within a few Generations, and the branches thereof perish for ever.
If their Children are like to live well in the world, and their Familyes to be made richer, they look no further; a sad sign that Religion will expire, and such Familyes be cut off from the Covenant, within a few Generations, and the branches thereof perish for ever.
4. Pray with all manner of prayer and supplication in the Spirit▪ Pray as sometimes the Martyr did, Lord ⟨p. 93⟩do not thou forsake me, left I forsake thee. Pray for your poor Children and Posterity, as David did for his Son Solomon, 1 Chron.29. 19. give unto my Son Solomon a perfect heart. He did not only exhort & charge his Son to labour after such an heart, but earnestly prayed to God, that such an heart might be given to him▪ And truly, if there were more prayers poured forth before the Lord, for the conversion of the Rising Generation, we may hope that there would a blessed Effect follow. I have been told that there is a Church in New-England, that hath set days apart only to seek unto the Lord, for converting grace to be vouchsafed to their children. O that all other Churches would do as they have done, even seek unto the Lord by Fasting and Prayer, for a poor, perishing, dying, unconverted Generation.
4. Pray with all manner of prayer and supplication in the Spirit▪ Pray as sometimes the Martyr did, Lord ⟨p. 93⟩