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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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5. Consider you have a great work to do before you go out of this world,&but a little time to do it in. As young as you are, you have much sin to repent of, and to obtain the pardon of, Original sin thou art guilty of, and that must be mortified. And who can declare how many actual sins thou hast committed in words, thoughts, and deeds, that have been evil? and all those to repent of, and endeavour that they may be mortified: and but little time to be attending works of this nature: for what is your life? It is but a vapour that appeareth for a little while, and then vanisheth away. Jam. 4. 14. If a man have a long journey to go in a winters day, he had need set out betimes. Thou hast a long journey to go: Is it not a long journey from earth to heaven? and but a winters day to dispatch this journey. When once the short day of thy life is expired, then it will be too late. There is no work in the Grave whether thou art going. O then up betimes, be going, he doing, and the Lord be with thee.
5. Consider you have a great work to doe before you go out of this world,&but a little time to doe it in. As young as you are, you have much sin to repent of, and to obtain the pardon of, Original sin thou art guilty of, and that must be mortified. And who can declare how many actual sins thou hast committed in words, thoughts, and deeds, that have been evil? and all those to repent of, and endeavour that they may be mortified: and but little time to be attending works of this nature: for what is your life? It is but a vapor that appeareth for a little while, and then vanisheth away. Jam. 4. 14. If a man have a long journey to goe in a winters day, he had need set out betimes. Thou hast a long journey to goe: Is it not a long journey from earth to heaven? and but a winters day to dispatch this journey. When once the short day of thy life is expired, then it will be too late. There is no work in the Grave whether thou art going. O then up betimes, be going, he doing, and the Lord be with thee.
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