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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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Moreover, such children experience outward blessings and preservations for their parents sake. It is said concerning him that feareth God, His children shall find a place of Refuge, Prov. 14. 26. And the Lord said to Abraham concerning Ishmael, Gen. ⟨p. 16⟩27. 13. 1I will make a nation of him because he is thy seed▪ And God spared Solomon for his Father David's sake,—1 King. 11. 34. And as for Jehoram all his Children were destroyed save one, and that one had been cut off too, had it not, been for the respect which the Lord did bear to his blessed fore-Father. 1 King. 8. 19. Yea, and such Children have a greater blessing with that outward state which God in his Providence shall see meet to cast upon them, then the Children of wicked men usually have; Though it may be they have not so much of the World as some others, yet since what they have was gotten in a way of righteousness, a blessing cometh along with it; for this cause David saith, A little that a righteous man hath is better then the riches of many wicked. Psal. 37. 16.
- 1v. Manasseh, Ben. Israel Concil. p. 43. in Gen.
Hence we ought to nourish hope concerning such Children, and that above what can be said with respect unto the Children of other Parents. 1