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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.
2. We have Solomons Exhortation unto young men in this verse. Wherein is expressed, 1. The act that ought to be done, Remember. 2. The Object, thy Creator, i.e. God, for he and he only is the Creator; since it requireth an infinite power to be able to produce a work of Creation. Hebr.[Boreeca.] Thy Creators. Not that there are more Gods or more Creators then one; But there is a plurality of persons in the Godhead. Though the work of Creation be more especially ascribed to the Father, as Redemption to the Son, and Application to the Spirit, yet each of the persons in the sacred and eternal Trinity, doth concur therein.
3. The time or season, when this duty ought to be attended, is expressed, viz. now in the days of thy youth▪ not that they that are past the days of their youth may forget God, or be exempted from this remembrance of him, but young men are under special obligations and advantages to remember him.
3. The time or season, when this duty ought to be attended, is expressed, viz. now in the dayes of thy youth▪ not that they that are past the dayes of their youth may forget God, or be exempted from this remembrance of him, but young men are under special obligations and advantages to remember him.
That as it is the Duty of all, 1so more especially of young men, to remember God their Creator. Remembering God may not be deferred until old Age, but ought to be attended in the days of youth.
That as it is the Duty of all,