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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.
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; Jer.32.30. It is true, that there are some young ones that are Remembering, & turning to the Lord, which ought to be acknowledged to the praise of his glorious grace, yet it must be said with lamentation, that the generality of the Youth in this Land, walk in ways of looseness, profaneness, pride, drinking, gaming, o• in a careless neglect of God, and of their own Souls. Hence the Lord doth not seem to take pleasure in many of the Youth of this Country. • it is a sad word that is spoken, Isai.9.17 The Lord shall have no joy in their young men. How many young men even in New-England, that have been cut off either by Sword or sickness within these two years? now shall the Lord have cause to complain as he doth by the Prophet, (Amos 4.10.) your young men have I slain with the Sword, yet have you not returned unto me. Moreover, young men in this Country enjoy means of grace plentifully dispensed, God is calling from Heaven to them, and striving with them, in the days of their youth, and therefore if they forget him, they will be left most inexcusable before his Judgement Seat. Yea, and many are the Children of godly Parents, 2