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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. Young men are subject to the stroke of Death as well as others, Job.21.23. One dyeth in his full strength. The young man of Nain whom Christ restored to life; notwithstanding his Youth, was subject to the stroke of Death, Luk.7.14. And Jairus his daughter was but about twelve years of Age, when she lay a dying, Luk.8.42. was not Eutichus a young man? ⟨p. 103⟩and yet he fell down from an upper Chamber, and was taken up dead, Act.20.9. were not Jobs Children young men? and yet they dyed suddenly. Was not Absalom a young man, and his brother Adonijah a young man when death surprised them? Did not Ely's Sons dye in the flower of their Age? 1 Sam.2.33. Now if young men Remember their Creator so as to repent of sin, and make sure of an Interest in Christ before death cometh, then happy shall they be. As Jeroboam's good Son, though he were a child •e dyed; 1 King.14.17. but inasmuch as in him there was found some good thing toward the Lord God of Israel, death did him no hurt, only he was taken away from the evil to come, that his eyes might not behold the miserable ruin, that was coming upon his Fathers Family. But if death find a young man in his sins, in an unconverted, Christless estate, woe to him that ever he was born! His naked Soul must appear before God his Creator, and receive a Sentence of eternal Damnation.
〈…〉. 3. Young men are subject to the stroke of Death as well as others, Job.21.23. One dyeth in his full stren•th. The young man of Naim whom Christ restored to life; notwithstanding his Youth, was subject to the stroke of Death,