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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.
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, Eph. 2. 3. we (saith the holy Apostle) were by nature the Children of wrath even as others. We that are Jews and descended of holy Ancestors, we that are converted, and made Apostles of Christ, by nature were Subjects of the wrath and righteous displeasure […] ⟨p. 3⟩God. Not but that some of the Children of godly men, have grace wrought in them whilst in a state of Infancy, as John Baptist was filled with the holy Ghost from his mothers womb, but they do not derive that grace from their Parents, and therefore it is not natural but supernatural, when any of the Children of sinful men are made gracious.
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 wandred 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, Eph. 2. 3. we (saith the holy Apostle) were by nature the Children of wrath even as others. We that are Jews and descended of holy Ancestors, we that are converted, and made Apostles of Christ, by nature were Subjects of the wrath and righteous displeasure