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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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I proceed therefore to apply this Truth, by way of Exhortation. O let young men this day be Exhorted in the Name and fear of God, to follow the counsel of the wise man, even to Remember their Creator in the days of their Youth. All you young men that are here before the Lord, (and there are many such in this Assembly) hear me this day, that so God may hear you another day, now turn to the Lord, now repent of sin, now make sure of an Interest in Jesus Christ, And therefore lay to heart some motives and persuasives.
I proceed therefore to apply this Truth, by way of Exhortation. O let young men this day be Exhorted in the Name and fear of God, to follow the counsel of the wise man, even to Remember their Creator in the dayes of their Youth. All you young men that are here before the Lord, (and there are many such in this Assembly) hear me this day, that so God may hear you another day, now turn to the Lord, now repent of sin, now make sure of an Interest in Jesus Christ, And therefore lay to heart some motives and per•wa•ives.
Consider, 1what special Reason they that are of the younger Rising Generation in New-England have to Remember their Creator. Now there is cause for it more then ever, In that there are so few that do so. Multitudes of young men are risen up in this Land, who have been forgetting God all their days; unto whom the ⟨p. 104⟩Lord may say as Jer.22.21. This hath been thy ••• ner from thy youth, that thou obeyest not my voice. And as it was said, concerning them of old, the Children of Israel, and the Children of Ju•a• have only done evil before […] from their Youth;