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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.
ECCLES. XII. I. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy Youth.
ECCLES. XII. I. Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy Youth.
Solomon in this Context doth apply himself to speak unto Young men, whom he doth, 1.Dehort. 2. Exhort.
Solom•n in this Context doth apply himself to speak unto Young men, whom he doth, 1.Dehort. 2. Exhort.
His Dehortation is in the two last verses of the former Chapter. And it is 1. Ironically propounded, v. •9. Rejoice o• young man in thy Youth, &c. It is such another form of speech as that of the Prophet unto Ahab, 1 King.22.15. Go and prosper. [a]He saw that Ahab was set upon his design, & therefore by way of Irony bids him go, and see what would come of it. Thus Solomon here, I see Young man (•aith he) that thou art resolved to follow the pleasures and vanities, whatever the event shall be, Do so, and see what will come of it. Wherefore he addeth, Walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes. This is expressly forbidden elsewhere in the Scripture [b]