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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.
Again, Sabbath breaking is a sin which Young ones are often found guilty of before the Lord. There was a young man [g](whom many of you have heard of) that came to an untimely end, and that sin of Sabbath breaking made way to his ruin: when he should have been hearing the word on the Lords day, he would rather go to wicked houses; that at last, God was so provoked with him, as to leave him to commit a Capital sin upon the Sabbath day, for which he was brought to deserved execution. And when in Prison, he said to some that came to visit him, O Wretch that I was! I studied how I might spend the Lords day in the Devils work: that time which I should have served God in, I did most for Satan […] it: O (said he) tell young men from me, that the breaking of the Sabbath is a dangerous and costly sin. And therefore young men beware of that sin. Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy, or you will never Remember your Creator as you ought to do.
Again, Sabbath breaking is a sin which Young ones are often found guilty of before the Lord. There was a young man [g](whom many of you have heard of) that came to an untimely end, and that sin of Sabbath breaking made way to his ruine: when he should have been hearing the word on the Lords day, he would rather go to wicked houses; that at last, God was so provoked with him, as to leave him to commit a Capital sin upon the Sabbath day, for which he was brought to deserved execution. And when in Prison, he said to some that came to visit him, O Wretch that I was! I studied how I might spend the Lords day in the Devills work: that time which I should have served God in, I did most for Satan 〈…〉 it: O (said he) tell young men from me, that the break••g of the Sabbath is a dangerous and costly sin. And therefore young men beware of that sin. Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy, or you will never Remember your Creator as you ought to doe.
- [g]•. Thomas Savage, who was executed •t Ratcliff D•t•b.28. 1668.