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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.
Que. We come now to the second thing propounded, viz. To show how it doth appear that the Children of godly Parents are under peculiar advantages and encouragement to seek the Lord.
Que. We come now to the second thing propounded, viz. To shew how it doth appear that the Children of godly Parents are under peculiar advantages and encouragement to seek the Lord.
Ans. In that the vein of Election, doth […] though the Joins of godly Parents for the most part. Though it be not Wholly, and only so, that elect Parents have none but elect Children, or that elect Children are always born of elect parents [a]yet God hath seen meet to […] the line of Election so, as that generally elect Children are […] upon elect Parents, John, directs one of his […], To the elect Lady and her Children, whom he also found walking, in the Truth. Not only the Mother, but the Children did belong to God, […] that if the mother be elect, at ⟨p. 6⟩least wise some of the Children are so too. There are many Scriptures which do intimate this truth, Psal. 105. 8. He hath remembered his Covenant for ever the word which be commanded to a thousand generations. Intimating both that the longer a generation doth continue godly, the more gracious will the Lord be to the Seed and posterity, and that there are some that in a continued Succession for many generations the Lord hath chosen. Hence Psal. 103. 17. The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his Righteousness unto Children's Children. Showing that God from Eternity hath designed mercy to some Parents and to their Children, and their Children's Children, Isai. 69. 20. my Spirit which is upon thee, & my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed saith the Lord, from hence […] & for ever. To the same purpose is that,