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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.
That the Children of godly Parents are under peculiar advantages and encouragements to seek the Lord. 1For the clearing of this Doctrine, two things may be attended, 1. To enquire what is implied in this seeking the Lord which the Text speaketh of? 2. How it doth appear that the Children of godly Parents are under peculiar advantages and encouragement so to do?
That the Children of godly Parents are under peculiar advantages and encouragements to seek the Lord. 1For the clearing of this Doctrine, two things may be attended, 1. To enquire what is implyed in this seeking the Lord which the Text speaketh of? 2. How it doth appear that the Children of godly Parents are under peculiar advantages and encouragement so to do?
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Qu. 1. What is implied in this seeking the Lord?
Qu. 1. What is implyed in this seeking the Lord?
Answ. 1. It doth imply that men by nature are such as have lost God. The sinner hath lost himself, Luk. 15. 32. this thy brother was lost, and is found, yea, and he hath lost God too. He is wandered from his Fathers house. Hence the Apostle said to the Ephesians, they were without God in the World. Yea, it is true concerning. Children of godly Parents as well as others,